Kelly Fiveash writes in The Register: Government departments will begin testing a first prototype of the Coalition’s new identity assurance model for its entire online public services space in October this year. Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude confirmed the plans in Parliament yesterday. As The Register reported last week, the government is already in early [...]
Alan Travis writes in The Guardian: The supreme court has declared that chief constables who refuse to delete the DNA profiles of more than 1 million innocent people on request are acting unlawfully. The ruling by the most senior judges in England and Wales says that the current police policy of indefinitely keeping DNA profiles [...]
Leo King writes in Computerworld UK: The NHS National Programme for IT, which is now budgeted at £11.4 billion, has no chance of delivering value for money and has failed on all of its crucial elements. That is the verdict of a sharp report, compiled by the National Audit Office, that the prime minister has [...]
Sky News reports: The Government will need to revisit the issue of ID cards in order to control immigration, the chairwoman of an MPs committee has told Sky News. Labour’s Margaret Hodge added it was “pretty outrageous” that more than 180,000 people remain in the UK even though their work permits have expired. She made [...]
John Oates writes in The Register: The Coalition government has enthusiastically signed up to a draft European directive on exchange data on airline passengers, even though UK and European data watchdogs have already said the directive goes too far. Minister for Immigration Damian Green told the Commons yesterday that the UK was opting in to [...]
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