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3 days ago by Richard

Dear Richard Caborn MP, In recent days the Home Secretary has announced that airside workers at Manchester and City airports will no longer be compelled to enroll with the National Identity Register as a condition of their continued employment. This news has been presented as a pledge that Identity ...

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24 days ago by Richard

To: Alan Powell, Editor, The Star Dear Sir James Hall is wrong to claim ID cards will be voluntary ( Letters, 10 June). Sheffield residents won’t be forced onto the National Identity Register directly, unless they’re from outside the European Economic Area, however the Government intends to make it ...

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33 days ago by Richard

Jacquie Smith is to step down as Secretary of State for the Home Department in the cabinet reshuffle that Gordon Brown is planning to make after the European elections on Thursday. While the door to the Home Secretary’s office has revolved ever more rapidly since 2001 the authoritarian brief of its ...

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54 days ago by almost wild

I haven't been to a fetish event in ages, but I'm still on the mailing list for a few, including the (apparently) ubiquitous Torture Garden, which apparently decided to book its birthday ball bash at the biggest venue they could find that would have them, SEOne. With one slight flaw - the club requi ...

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61 days ago by sarahhartley

There’s been much debate online today about the announcement that Manchester is to become a trial area for ID cards but this video vox from the BBC particualrly grabbed my attention. As you’d expect from the Beeb, there’s argument both ways, but it’s striking just how fear seems to be the main motiv ...

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104 days ago by 156leaks

“As is normal, these contracts have been written to protect the public purse with standard clauses in the event of termination,” Ms Smith said. Scrapping ID cards ‘would cost £40m’ - UK Politics, UK - The Independent The Government has been accused before of tendering to several companies for the ID ...

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105 days ago by 156leaks

A quarter of all the largest public-sector database projects, including the ID cards register, are fundamentally flawed and clearly breach European data protection and rights laws, according to a report published today. Right to privacy broken by a quarter of UK’s public databases, says report | Pol ...

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109 days ago by 156leaks

Just when you thought the public sector IT scene had gone all wiki and web 2.0, along comes the chance to stage a grand, old-fashioned, big bucks, big contract project fiasco. The setting is the new national identity system being built by the Identity and Passport Service to support biometric ID car ...

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145 days ago by Richard

There were a bunch of news stories last week ridiculing the Government’s ID card strategy by revealing that, though 50,000 cards will have been issued by April, no official (or unofficial) organisation is yet capable of reading them. No card readers have been issued and the back-end systems aren’t r ...

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147 days ago by mikagro

Первая партия идентификационных карт для иностранцев, проживающих в Великобритании, была выдана в ноябре, но спустя три месяца после этого не установлено ни одного устройства для чтения и анализа биометрической информации с карт. Сайт Silicon. com был первым, кто обратил внимание на это упущение. Эт ...

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