Mark Ballard writes in Computer Weekly: Ministers and civil servants swept fundamental problems with the ID card database blueprint under the carpet and approved a development plan that would prove so unfeasible it had to be torn up after government IT experts had worked on it for three years, Computer Weekly has learned. Documents on [...]
Tom Whitehead writes in the Daily Telegraph: Police chiefs could be forced to clear the DNA database of innocent people ahead of any change in the law under a legal challenge that begins today. The Coalition Government has pledged to dramatically reduce the time period that police can retain samples of people who were not [...]
John Leyden writes in The Register: Comms data retention is ineffective for the prosecution of serious crime, according to a study of German police statistics by local privacy activists. Germany implemented a European Union directive in 2008 requiring telecoms operators and ISPs to retain data about customers’ communications, including numbers called or email addresses contacted [...]
James Slack writes in the Daily Mail: Town hall bosses are compiling secret ‘Big Brother’ databases on the appearance of schoolchildren’s parents. Education officials say they are keeping the sensitive information in case they ever want to identify a parent for legal action. Forms are being given to staff asking them to comment on height, [...]
This blog doesn’t usually report the contents of press releases, but we’re making an exception for this one. According to the Home Office: From midnight tonight [Friday 21st January] identity cards can no longer be used to prove identity or to travel in Europe. The cards have been scrapped by the government under the Identity [...]
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