http://www.no2id.net/newsblog The latest on Identity Cards and Databases in the UK Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:29:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kable reports: Directgov has asked IT suppliers to come up with new thinking on identity verification The team, which is now within the Cabinet Office, has issued a pre-tender notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union, saying that it wants feedback on potential requirements for the public sector on ... http://www.no2id.net/newsblog/2010-09/government-fishes-for-id-ideas/ Nicholas Watt writes in the Guardian about Tony Blair's memoir: Blair dismisses objections to ID cards on civil liberties grounds as "absurd". The cards were necessary; they would help deal with illegal immigration and aid transactions that were the "warp and woof" of life. "I could envisage that it might take ... http://www.no2id.net/newsblog/2010-09/tony-blairs-book-god-public-services-and-being-a-liberal/ Andrew Grice writes in the Inependent: Ed Miliband has much more than winning the Labour leadership in his sights. He is convinced he can complete the first realignment in British politics since the Social Democratic Party of David Owen and Roy Jenkins left Labour in 1981. "There is a progressive majority in ... http://www.no2id.net/newsblog/2010-08/a-welcome-promised-in-hastings-for-disgruntled-lib-dem-voters/ David Jarvis and Matthew Davis write in the Sunday Express: Town hall snoops have been caught red-handed using the DVLA’s database to spy on people. The Big Brother tactics emerged after councils were given the green light to use DVLA car registration records, strictly to track down owners of abandoned vehicles. Instead, and ... http://www.no2id.net/newsblog/2010-08/car-registration-snoops-planned/ Brian Wheeler writes on the BBC web site: The pressure to make efficiency savings by any means possible - and the fear of expensive legal action from IT suppliers if contracts are cancelled means that some big IT schemes conceived by Labour are going ahead as planned. For example, a huge scheme ... http://www.no2id.net/newsblog/2010-08/business-as-usual-for-big-brother-state/ Mark Ballard writes in Computer Weekly: The number of public sector workers caught snooping on personal records in the government's largest citizen database continues to grow, with the total now 225 - and the true figure could be higher still. Yet another employee has been sacked for accessing records on the Department ... http://www.no2id.net/newsblog/2010-08/more-than-200-public-sector-staff-caught-snooping-on-citizen-records/