David Aaronovitch writes in The Times:
But this fashionable paranoia about data and surveillance goes well beyond annoyance at petty officaldom, and has become something of a mindset, as we will be reminded later today. The occasion will the publication of the Government’s response to last spring’s semi-apocalyptic Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust’s report, Database State. You [...]

Angela Epstein writes in The Jewish Chronicle:
I had found myself first in line after having been a vocal supporter of ID cards in my weekly opinion column for the Manchester Evening News. It’s not an easy line to take (and may explain why only 1,386 of Manchester’s 2.5 million-strong population have applied for a card). [...]

Sean O’Neill writes in The Times:
The same voices that sow alarm over DNA also complain loudly about the spread of the “surveillance society”. They fret about the rising number of CCTV cameras, quoting the guesstimate of 4.2 million cameras as fact.
And they stoke up fear over proposals to create a central log of mobile phone [...]

John Freeman was director of children’s services for Dudley Council from 2005 to 2008, and is a former joint president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services. He writes in the Guardian:
The use of IT systems has not always been easy, and there is a legitimate area for debate around how case records should [...]

Charles Clarke writes on the Guardian Comment is Free web site about his vision for a Labour Fourth term, including an extended section headed “Identity databases”:
The controversy about identity cards has been politically potent. However, the debate has been beset by misleading and even duplicitous arguments.
The truth is that technological change means that massive identity [...]