Nicholas Watt writes in the Guardian: The government is running the risk of making it more difficult to convict rapists by relaxing the rules for retaining the DNA of suspects, the shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has warned. Parliament is due to debate the government’s protection of freedoms bill on Tuesday, which includes plans to [...]
A letter in The Independent (scroll down) purports to correct the record on the safety of census information: … First, it is not true that EU legislation allows for census information to be shared with EU member states. No personal census information has been or will be provided to EU member states or EU institutions; [...]
Martin Beckford and Steven Swinford write in the Daily Telegraph: The overhaul of the NHS will spell the end of doctor-patient confidentiality, the British Medical Association has warned. The association says new legislation will give the Government, quangos and local authorities the power to access sensitive medical details without the patient’s permission. It fears that [...]
Steve Doughty writes in the Daily Mail: Every home will be monitored by state ‘tracking computers’ to check if people return their census forms, it has been revealed. The surveillance network will try to ensure more than 22million households fill in the 32-page forms when the national headcount is carried out in five weeks’ time. [...]
Philip Johnston writes in the Daily Telegraph about the 2011 Census: But there are so many other sources of demographic information these days – from supermarket loyalty cards to Government databases – that the census could usefully be pared back to its original purpose: a simple population count. Any additional required information can be obtained [...]
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