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Saturday, July 19th, 2008By David Meyer | It's not going to be compulsory to carry around ID cards. Honestly. So said Stephen Harrison, policy director at the ID & Passport Service, when asked today at the Westminster eForum on ID cards, surveillance and data protection. Further questioning elicited more explanation: no, you won't have to carry it around all the time, only when you want to use public services. Then: it's "not a tool ...
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ID cards won’t solve society’s biggest problem
Monday, July 14th, 2008As the current spate of murders and knife-related attacks reaches a new high with another four violent deaths, we should maybe get things in a proper context. Millions of pounds are being committed to the prevention of terrorism, not least of which is the proliferation of CCTV cameras and the government's determination to force ID cards on us all. To my knowledge, few if any of these recent stabbings have ...
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Spin Doctor Behind Davis’ Campaign Promotes ID Cards
Thursday, July 10th, 2008By Andy Rowell and Michael Gillard | A spin doctor behind David Davis and his much-vaunted “freedom” campaign against creeping state surveillance is an influential figure in the worldwide promotion of identity cards. Kevin Bell is vice-president of Fleishman-Hillard, a global public relations firm representing security companies that have introduced ID cards in the United States and Spain. Opposition to the Government’s move to introduce a British ID card is a ...
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UK workers campaign against ID cards
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008PT | Representatives of the UK’s aviation workers say they are being used as political pawns to further the UK government's controversial ID cards programme. The British Air Transport Association (BATA) says aviation workers are being used as guinea pigs for the scheme. ID cards for airside workers, those who work beyond airport security checks, will become compulsory in 2009. Roger ...
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Top airline bosses launch assault on airport ID card plan
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008By John Lettice | The bosses of the UK's major airlines have attacked plans to force airport workers to enrol in the national ID card scheme, claiming that "the UK aviation industry is being used for political purposes on a project which has questionable public support."* If anything the move, they say, could reduce security by adding a "false sense of security to our ...
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ID scheme: the truths, half-truths and deceptions
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008By Geraint Bevan | THE organisation NO2ID will not be represented officially inside the Home Office's secretive ID consultation at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel in Edinburgh today. Despite repeated requests, officials have decided that my fellow campaigners and I are not "stakeholders" in the delivery of the glorious post-ID future. Shame. To those people who have been invited to praise the ID scheme to high heaven and develop strategies for coercion, ...
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Nine held in ID card demo
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008NINE protesters were arrested in Edinburgh yesterday following a demonstration at government plans to introduce ID cards. The arrests, all in connection with breach of the peace offences, were made at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel. The North Bridge hotel was the venue for a discussion on the scheme between Meg Hillier, the Home Office minister for identity, and business and local-authority representatives. All those arrested were members of NO2ID, an anti-ID ...
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Tougher terror laws actually enhance freedoms, claims Brown
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
By James Kirkup | The Prime Minister used a speech in London to defend his Government's record on civil liberties in the light of last week's Labour rebellion over the detention of terror suspects and the high-profile challenge being mounted by David Davis, the former Tory front bencher.
Some 36 Labour MPs last week voted against the Government's plans to hold ...
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Commons 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 ...
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MPs voice fears over ID cards
Sunday, 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 ...
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Lecturers defy government over ID cards
Thursday, 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 ...
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Time 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 ...
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Firms await verdict on £2 billion ID cards project
Monday, 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 ...
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Government admits ID cards have no business case
Tuesday, 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 ...
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Data fear haunts ID card scheme
Wednesday, 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 ...
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