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ID-Cards« Previous EntriesCommons report: British “surveillance society”Saturday, June 14th, 2008 QAS | The Commons' home affairs committee has submitted a report warning of the danger of Britain becoming a surveillance society. The report calls on the government to promise the proposed ID card scheme will not be used to spy on people.
"We recommend that the Home Office produce a report on the intended functions of the national identity scheme in ...
tagged Big-Brother, ID-Cards and UK-NewsMPs voice fears over ID cardsSunday, June 8th, 2008 By Brian Brady | Compulsory identity cards could be used to spy on people, MPs warn today. Members of the Home Affairs Select Committee say they are concerned that the way the authorities use sensitive data gathered in the multibillion-pound programme could gradually "creep" in scope to include covert surveillance.
The all-party committee also urges ministers to make plans for how ...
tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsLecturers defy government over ID cardsThursday, May 29th, 2008 By Anthea Lipsett | Lecturers voted overwhelmingly to oppose and defy the government's plans to introduce identity cards at the University and College annual congress in Manchester today.The government plans to pilot the controversial identity cards with international students, which lecturers warned could deter them from choosing to study in the UK.
In January, the Tories accused the ...
tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsTime to bin ID cards? Calls for Brown to “bite the bullet”Saturday, May 24th, 2008By Nick Heath | The government is facing calls to cancel its ID card scheme after it announced that all of the five remaining IT suppliers have now been short-listed to deliver the system. Opponents questioned whether the complex £2bn system has any chance of being run effectively or competitively when the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has just five companies left to choose from and five parts of the ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsFirms await verdict on £2 billion ID cards projectMonday, May 19th, 2008 The Independent | The technology industry will next week learn who the Government has awarded contracts to supply the £2bn biometric identity card programme, the last and among the most secretive of the recent crop of major public-sector IT schemes.
The framework deals under the hammer do not guarantee a role in the ID programme, but only those companies that win ...
tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsGovernment admits ID cards have no business caseTuesday, May 13th, 2008 By Ian Grant | The government has, for the first time, admitted publicly that it cannot quantify in financial terms the expected benefits from its controversial £5.4bn National Identity Scheme (NIS).James Hall, chief executive of the Identity & Passport Service, said, "Many of these benefits [of the NIS] may be hard to quantify and potentially harder to ...
tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsData fear haunts ID card schemeWednesday, May 7th, 2008 By Mark Ballard | THE UK government has been warned that it should deal with the risk of data loss from its Identity Card Scheme before it proceeds any further.The latest data warning follows repeated requests from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK data guardian, that the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) conduct a proper assessment of the risks ...
tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsGovernment can’t be trusted with our personal informationTuesday, May 6th, 2008 By Margaret Smith | WE have seen only recently just how incompetent the Government is at keeping our personal information secure. Last year, HM Revenue and Customs lost computer discs containing the personal information of about 25 million people, including their bank account details and National Insurance numbers.
This is on top of the DVLA in Northern Ireland losing the personal details of ...
tagged Database-State, ID-Cards and UK-NewsID-cards are ‘theft’ of our civil libertiesTuesday, May 6th, 2008By Robert and Alison Bell | The indiscriminate invasion of our privacy and the related issue of six weeks' detention without charge are so serious and far reaching that we should be hammering at the doors of our local MPs, particularly Labour MPs, to insist that these bills are overturned. Every one of us should be exercising what is still our democratic ...
tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsWhy Gordon Brown should halt ID cardsFriday, May 2nd, 2008Geraint Bevan | Government departments cannot be trusted to keep citizens' personal data secure. It is not only in Italy that tax records are not as confidential as people might have expected.
Treasury minister Jane Kennedy has admitted that last year, 192 staff at HM Revenue & Customs were disciplined for inappropriate access to personal or sensitive data. This brings to 600 the ...
tagged ID-CardsLabour revolt over ID cardsWednesday, April 30th, 2008 By Tom Shepherd | Campaigners fighting the Government's plans for ID cards are claiming a victory after four Labour candidates seeking election to Oxford City Council on Thursday opposed the scheme.
And today, city councillor and Lord Mayor John Tanner, who is seeking re-election in his Littlemore seat, told Oxford campaign group NO2ID he also did not support the Government's proposals.
NO2ID ...
tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsID card consultants cost us £150mFriday, April 11th, 2008JAMES SLACK Spending on consultants by the Home Office has rocketed by 2,000 per cent under Labour to almost £150m a year. The total amount lavished on management consultants and other so-called experts over the past decade is £545m. One of the major reasons for the expenditure is trying to get the controversial ID cards project of the ground. The cash could otherwise have been spent putting 10,900 extra police on streets ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsIPS wants ID card service pilotsWednesday, April 9th, 2008The Identity and Passport Service is discussing a round of pilots that use identity cards to join up service delivery. James Hall, chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service, told GC News the agency is talking to government departments about how the card may be used to support service delivery. He said the move has the enthusiastic support of the home secretary and that the IPS is aiming to run ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsID card rebels offer £1,000 for Brown’s fingerprintsSunday, April 6th, 2008Jamie Doward, home affairs editor The Observer, Sunday April 6 2008 Two of Britain's leading civil liberties groups are to offer a £1,000 reward for the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary - a move that could leave both groups open to prosecution for incitement. The anti-ID cards group No2ID and the campaign organisation Privacy International will this week take out spoof 'Wanted' ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsNO2ID Activists Greet MP In Charge Of ID CardsTuesday, April 1st, 2008Today Meg Hillier, the minister in charge of the ID cards programme, came to Cambridge for discussions on the scheme with local business and civic leaders. Her visit received a 'welcoming committee' of NO2ID activists, who staked out two of the main entrances to Jesus College. In an interview on Radio Cambridgeshire this morning, Ms. Hillier repeated the government line that ID Cards are 'voluntary'. However, while applying ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-News« Previous Entries |
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