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For a while, Techdirt has been tracking Iran's continuing efforts to throttle its citizens' access to troublesome materials onlin...

Power2010 aims to highlight egregious cases of MPs damaging democracy and blocking its reform. For their first case, they have picked Tony ...

There's no doubt that the area outside computing where the ideas underlying open source are being applied most rapidly and most successf...

There is a nauseating piece of troll-bait in the Guardian today. It's called "My DNA dilemma", and in it Alan Johnson attemp...

This is so rich. The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) is becoming less and less useful as it produces more and more errors; these arise in par...

...in 12 minutes : Embedded inside the card for foreigners is a microchip with the details of its bearer held in electronic form: name, date...

Wow, here's a really great article about identity management from, um, er, Microsoft. Actually, it's a rather remarkable Microsoft...

And so it starts to come out : Microsoft is angling to work on India’s national identity card project, Mr. Gates said, and he will be meetin...

...and it's £2.2 trillion : The gap between what the Government expects to spend and what it actually brings in has risen five-fold, fro...

Kudos to Computer Weekly : The information commissioner has ordered the opening of confidential files on a wide range of high-risk IT proje...

I've always been slightly conflicted about Jerry Fishenden. He obviously knew what he was talking about, but he was, you know, one of t...

Well, I was expecting this , but not so soon: A Glasgow council worker was sacked and another resigned after they were caught snooping into ...

Remember how those magic ID cards would provide strong forms of identity, thus protecting us against terrorists, people traffickers et al.? ...

This is significant : Senior cabinet ministers are privately discussing a plan to scrap the Government's £5bn identity cards programme a...

One of the many disgraceful aspects about the disgraceful ID card programme is the reluctance of the UK government to make key documents ava...

That's almost before it's come into existence: The breaches of the Customer Information System (CIS), which is run by the Departmen...

The Convention on Modern Liberty was launched last night. I may be foolishly optimistic, but I do feel that this is our best hope of stopp...

The latest Home Office poll on public attitudes to the planned National ID card indicates that support for the scheme has eroded slightly, w...

Britain's only specialist police human trafficking unit is to be shut down after two years because of a lack of funding, the government ...

Eek : Measures such as ID cards are a temporary measure before biometric technology becomes ubiquitous; That was the warning from security g...