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Passport details to be kept on ID register despite card U-turn | Politics | The GuardianBritish citizens who apply for or renew their passport will be automatically registered on the national identity card database under regulations to be approved by MPs in the next few weeks. The decision to press ahead with the main elements of the national identity card scheme follows a ...
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ID card deal shelved as Tories brace its bidders :: Contractor UKAward winning PAYE umbrella company ID card deal shelved as Tories brace its bidders The showpiece contract for national identity cards will be held back, prompting speculation that a Tory pledge to scrap the entire scheme may have unsettled its front-running companies. The companies – ...
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BBC NEWS | UK | UK 'must log' phone and web useAll internet and phone traffic should be recorded to help the fight against terrorism, according to one of the UK's former spy chiefs. Civil rights campaigners have criticised ministers' plans to log details of such contact as "Orwellian". But Sir David Pepper, who ran the GCHQ listening ...
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newsletter 119 » NO2ID+ CLAUSE 152 - DEAD, BUT NOT QUITE BURIED... + What just happened? + Government releases (some) ID card Gateway Reviews + The Home Office has released two Gateway Reviews of the government's ID scheme. The release of the documents comes as the result of a Freedom of Information request by ...
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Mark Thomas:How I got my genes deleted | Comment is free | The GuardianHow I got my genes deleted I've had my DNA struck from police records - now it's over to the rest of you 799,999 innocents Until Tuesday I was one of 800,000 innocent people in the UK who had their DNA on the police database. Most of us had a swab sample taken on arrest and our ...
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Government scraps data sharing plans | IT PROGovernment scraps data sharing plans Jack Straw has bowed to pressure from civil liberty groups and public sector bodies, including the Information Commissioner, to scrap controversial clause 152 in the Justice Bill. By Miya Knights, 9 Mar 2009 at 11:57 The Ministry of Justice has ...
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Video: Under surveillance: police target protesters and journalists | UK news | guardian.co.ukUnder surveillance: police target environmental protesters and journalists Shocking footage shot by police, accompanied by their own critical commentary, shows how their officers monitored campaigners and the media – and demanded personal information – at last August's climate camp ...
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Malevolent voices that despise our freedoms | Philip Pullman - Times OnlineAre such things done on Albion's shore? The image of this nation that haunts me most powerfully is that of the sleeping giant Albion in William Blake's prophetic books. Sleep, profound and inveterate slumber: that is the condition of Britain today. We do not know what is happening to us. In ...
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