Archive for January 31st, 2011

Identity card plan ignored fatal flaws

Posted at Monday, January 31st, 2011 by andrew

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 [...]

Innocent DNA retention to be challenged

Posted at Monday, January 31st, 2011 by andrew

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 [...]

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