Archive for id cards
Forgotten Liberal heroes: Clarence Henry Willcock
Listen to Liberal Democrats make speeches and there are frequent references to historical figures, but drawn from a small cast. Just the quartet of John Stuart Mill, William Gladstone, David Lloyd George, David Penhaligon corner almost all of the market, especially since Bob Maclennan stopped making speeches to party conference. Some of the forgotten figures [...]
Meanwhile, in other news…
Today Royal Assent was given to the Act scrapping Labour’s ID cards. Good news.
How ID card data ended up in the wrong places
The Coalition Government’s detailed planning to destroy most of the IT infrastructure and data for ID cards, following the decision to axe Labour’s ID cards plans, has revealed disturbing news about how data was mishandled. As the BBC reports, equipment is having to be destroyed because it looks like data was wrongly stored on it: [...]
Opposition to I.D. cards grows (if people reminded about costs)
More than half the public (53%) think ID cards are a bad or very bad idea when reminded that “The government has proposed the introduction of identity cards that, in combination with your passport, will cost around £93″. This compares to 37% saying they are a good or very good idea.
Opposition to ID cards has [...]
Daily View 2×2: 13 December 2009
It’s Sunday. It’s 7am. It’s time for feline table tennis, but first the blogs and news.
2 Must-Read Blog Posts
What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers saying? Here’s are two posts that have caught the eye from the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:
Esther for Luton – What’s that all about then? asks Jeremy Rowe. He says, “I couldn’t [...]
Nine staff sacked for breaking rules over ID cards database
Computer Weekly has the story:
Nine staff have been sacked from their local authority jobs for snooping on personal records of celebrities and personal acquaintances held on the core database of the government’s National Identity Scheme.
They are among 34 council workers who illegally accessed the Customer Information System (CIS) database, which holds the biographical data of [...]
More than 30 million pieces of private data go missing
Liberty has a new fun little film about why the Government’s plans for a national identity database are a bad idea:
