ID Cards: All Aboard The Failboat
As if the soon-to-be-ex-government's soon-to-be-ex-ID card scheme wasn't looking doomed enough already, The Register today has a detailed article about just how poorly David Blunkett's magical biometrics are likely to work in reality. (Short answer: poorly.)
Oh, and large number of council workers have been fired or reprimanded for using the DWP's proto-identity database (the oft-lauded "clean" database having slunk back to fairyland some years back) to, amongst other things, look up their neighbours and vet their daughters' boyfriends. And that's just the ones caught in a random automated audit. But of course, the hundreds of thousands of people who will have access to the ID database will be entirely immune to such urges. Honest.
Oh, and large number of council workers have been fired or reprimanded for using the DWP's proto-identity database (the oft-lauded "clean" database having slunk back to fairyland some years back) to, amongst other things, look up their neighbours and vet their daughters' boyfriends. And that's just the ones caught in a random automated audit. But of course, the hundreds of thousands of people who will have access to the ID database will be entirely immune to such urges. Honest.