According to the Daily Telegraph: Civil servants were urged to sign up their own families for ID cards as the controversial scheme flopped, a freedom of information request has revealed. Confidential reports into trials of the £30 cards expose for the first time the chaos that surrounded their introduction. The £1bn scheme was launched in [...]
Kashmir Hill writes in the American Forbes Magazine: The next big privacy battle may be over who has access to your DNA. It is becoming surprisingly easy for someone to test your DNA without permission. Every drop of saliva you leave on a Styrofoam coffee cup or hair follicle that falls to the floor contains [...]
Judith Duffy writes in the Daily Express: Dozens of Scottish schools have introduced “intrusive” biometric systems, such as fingerprinting, to identify pupils as young as four. New figures show 68 schools are now using technology to manage meals, control library books and even allow access to toilets. Almost two-thirds are primaries, where fingerprinting and palm [...]
The Daily Mail reports: Identity cards are to be officially abolished, after peers finally withdrew their demand that the 12,000 people who paid £30 for them should be allowed to claim their money back. The coalition’s Identity Documents Bill, which repeals the previous Labour administration’s Identity Cards Act 2006, gained Royal Assent to become law [...]
Damian Green MP writes on the Guardian Comment is Free web site: Today’s final abolition of the intrusive and expensive ID card scheme is the climax of a long campaign that has been extremely close to my heart. I believe civil liberties and values that we should fight to uphold have been under serious threat [...]
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