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August 27, 2008

14:00
Election watchdog makes ID card U-turn
Chris Williams writes in The Register: UK election scrutineers are pushing for polling stations to require tougher proof of identity to reduce the risk of ballot-rigging, but do not want voters to be forced to bring photo ID. The stance is a reversal of statements made by Electoral Commission chairman Sam Younger just a year ago.
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August 26, 2008

08:31
The malign power of platitudes
The BBC web site carries a transcript of a commentary by Katharine Whitehorn, broadcast in Radio 4’s “A point of view” slot: The great writer and journalist G.K. Chesterton once wrote that he had spent all his life finding out that platitudes were true. And maybe some of them are, though quite a few are ambiguous. “Ne’er [...]
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August 25, 2008

08:41
Home Office has lost 43 laptops
Rhodri Phillips writes in The Sun: The Home Office has lost 43 laptops and 94 mobiles over the last three years in the latest data bungle to hit the gaffe-prone department. It comes days after a memory stick containing the details of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales was misplaced. The loss of the computers and phones [...]
Categories: Politics

August 23, 2008

14:58
Consultants who lost data are working on ID cards
Ben Russell writes in The Independent: The Home Office contractor which lost a computer memory stick containing the details of 84,000 prisoners is at the heart of developing the Government’s controversial compulsory identity cards system. PA Consulting – which on Tuesday told ministers it had misplaced the unencrypted names, dates of birth and expected release dates of [...]
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August 22, 2008

10:26
Personal details of 84,000 prison inmates lost in security blunder
Gerri Peev writes in The Scotsman: The personal details of the entire prison population south of the Border have been lost in a massive security breach at the Home Office, it was revealed last night. Information on tens of thousands of criminals – including expected release dates – was lost while private contractors hired by the government [...]
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August 21, 2008

09:45
2011 census will be last ‘because it is outdated’
Douglas Fraser writes in the Glasgow Herald: The next census will be the last of its kind under plans being drawn up for its replacement with a national population register. The £500m census on March 27, 2011, will be the earliest in the year since the first Britain-wide survey in 1801, to avoid Easter and the Scottish [...]
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August 20, 2008

22:45
Most youth ID cards delayed until 2011
According to Kablenet: The Home Office will wait until 2011 to issue the ‘vast majority’ of identity cards to students and young people. The schedule is outlined in A Strong New Force at the Border, a document issued by the department on 19 August detailing plans for the UK Border Agency. It places the work in 2011 [...]
Categories: Politics
08:17
Personal details of 4 million lost by Whitehall in just one year
Christopher Hope writes in the Daily Telegraph: Sensitive data for more than four million people was lost by Government departments in the past year, on top of the high profile loss of child benefit records. Following the loss of details for 25 million child benefit claimants in November, Whitehall departments have begun including information on personal information [...]
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August 18, 2008

13:07
ID card ‘propaganda’ backfires as students revolt
Etan Smallman writes in The Times: Trust Britain’s youth to be characteristically ungrateful. The Government goes to all the effort of making a website for 16 to 25- year-olds to express their views on identity cards, and all they get in return is a solid mixture of scorn, sneering and scepticism smattered across their fancy new [...]
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August 16, 2008

18:30
Gordon Brown ’snubbed’ over his Britishness exhibition at the British Library
Chris Hastings, Beth Jones and Stephanie Plentl write in The Daily Telegraph: When Gordon Brown called on the British Library to stage an exhibition about Britishness he perhaps envisaged a patriotic celebration of the national identity. What he would not have expected is the resulting event, Taking Liberties, which encourages visitors to contemplate the perilous state of [...]
Categories: Politics
18:26
Government loses another 45,000 people’s private details
Christopher Hope writes in The Daily Telegraph: The personal details of 45,000 people, including dates of birth, criminal records, National Insurance numbers and court information, were lost by a single Government department last year. The Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) annual accounts show the data was lost in nine separate incidents in the past financial year. The worst incident, [...]
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August 15, 2008

08:41
ID card scheme faces new hurdle
Alan Travis writes in The Guardian: The national identity card scheme faces fresh problems following a warning from the government’s top scientific advisers that the quality of fingerprints from 4 million people aged over 75 may be too poor to be used to prove their identity. The “gold standard” integrity of the national identity scheme would depend [...]
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August 12, 2008

17:29
Brown is right about us needing help with fuel bills
Fergus Shanahan writes in The Sun: But help has to be offered to EVERYONE and not just those receiving child benefit. Handouts are just gimmicks, anyway. And they have to be paid for - usually through tax. We need long-term solutions. Brown should cut petrol and diesel tax, axe wasteful Labour pet projects like ID cards and freeze town [...]
Categories: Politics

August 10, 2008

19:14
Irish bus pass is ‘identity card by stealth’
Colin Coyle writes in the Irish Sunday Times: When John Welford fumbles in his pockets for change as he boards the bus, fellow passengers often nod sympathetically at the pensioner and ask him if he has forgotten his free travel pass. Those who strike up a conversation with Welford will come away thinking that he is [...]
Categories: Politics

August 8, 2008

09:21
Kitten with a cause: Lucy Porter - The Bare Necessities
Nadine McBay, writing in Metro, reviews Lucy Porter’s Edinburgh Fringe show, and gives it 4 stars: Her gentle rants about ID cards and reminiscences about buying Lidl gin may be closer to amusing after-dinner ramblings than hard-nosed stand-up, but that’s her attraction. Someone who can find sweetness even in the man who stole her credit card, [...]
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August 7, 2008

07:44
Cloned e-passports fiasco renews calls for £4.7bn ID card scheme to be axed
Richard Ford and Sam Coates write in The Times: Opposition MPs accused the Government last night of being naive in believing that new microchipped passports would be foolproof against criminals involved in identity theft. After The Times disclosed that new passports could be cloned and manipulated in minutes and would then be accepted as genuine, MPs also [...]
Categories: Politics

August 6, 2008

08:57
‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes
Steve Boggan writes in The Times: New microchipped passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft can be cloned and manipulated in minutes and accepted as genuine by the computer software recommended for use at international airports. Tests for The Times exposed security flaws in the microchips introduced to protect against terrorism and organised crime. The flaws [...]
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August 4, 2008

22:45
£18m National Identity Register deal awarded
Nick Heath writes in Silicon.com: A prototype of the UK ID card biometric database will be delivered by French firm Thales for £18m. The defence contractor will design, build, test and operate an early version of the National Identity Register (NIR) and ID card application system for airport workers, which will go live from the second half [...]
Categories: Politics
09:07
There’s a new divide in politics, and Cameron is on the better side of it
Jenni Russell writes in The Guardian: The new dividing line between Labour and the Tories is less about a left-right split than about an authoritarian approach on one side and a more liberal one on the other. And Labour are on the wrong side of it. Many of their social and economic policies may have failed, [...]
Categories: Politics

August 2, 2008

08:18
Defence group awarded £18m identity card contract
Sylvia Pfeifer writes in the Financial Times: A controversial national identity card scheme took another step forward on Friday when the Home Office awarded the defence group Thales a four-year contract to help deliver the £5bn-plus programme. Under the £18m contract, Thales will design, build and test a system to issue the cards, along with a computerised [...]
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