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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...

This is just a jokette , right? The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyon...

Papers acquired by the Liberal Democrats via Freedom of Information requests show that the 1,500 officers policing the Kingsnorth climate ca...

Jackboot Jacqui is at it again: The government Interception Modernisation Programme (gIMP), a plan by spy chiefs to centrally collect detai...

Our dear Home Secretary decides to ignore what we proles think again: His warning follows an admission yesterday by Jacqui Smith that the t...

That's Stella Rimington, former head of MI5. Her Guardian interview is so packed with good sense that I'll have to quote it at le...

...can Jacqui be far behind? All visitors to internet cafés in Beijing will be required to have their photographs taken in a stringent new ...

Jacqui Smith has set out plans to give the police and security services more powers to gather phone and e-mail data. But wait : "I want...

There's hope : academic John Daugman, a former member of the Biometrics Assurance Group (BAG), which reviewed the scheme, said its relia...

.... just in case they need reminding: Dominic Grieve has said it is “high time” Labour abandon their "ill-fated" ID cards projec...

Since we now know this : Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has blamed a private contractor for losing the details of thousands of criminals, held ...

No, really : In recent years Microsoft has shown every sign of knowing which way is up when it comes to identity management. The company alr...