Andrew Rawnsley writes in The Observer: In the headlines, the thwarting of a transatlantic terror plot. Playing out behind the scenes in Whitehall, a story that the government doesn’t want you to read. An intense internal battle is being waged over how to respond to terrorism without compromising fundamental principles of justice and civil liberties. [...]
Mark Ballard, writing on his blog at Computer Weekly, notes that the Cabinet Office CIO and CTO councils meet more-or-less in secret, without published agendas or minutes: Fancy that. Francis Maude’s open data revolution is being conducted in secret. That’s fine. Everyone knows power can be handed to the people only once the battle is [...]
Alan Travis writes on the Guardian web site: The information commissioner is to meet the Home Office to clarify his concerns over the potential privacy risks involved in a revived Whitehall project to track the email, internet and mobile phone use of everyone in Britain. David Cameron promised at prime minister’s question time today that [...]
Chris Williams writes in The Register: The coalition government has torn up figures that pegged the cost of plans by the intelligence services to store records of every online communication at £2bn. A Home Office spokesman told The Register that the previous government’s estimate of the cost of the Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) has been [...]
Andrew Denholm writes in The Herald: New checks on Scottish parents who want to help out at school events are a form of identity card scheme, ministers will be warned today. The Scottish Parent Teacher Council (SPTC) said, in an open letter to Children and Early Years Minister Adam Ingram, plans for new disclosure checks [...]
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