Home Affairs Committee report on Identity Cards and Submission to the Committee from the Information Commissioner

Home Affairs Committee report on: Identity Cards (full-text – pdf). See also Submission to the Committee from the Information Commissioner which is more critical than the report: Information Commissioner (pdf) Backgound: a. Full-text of consultation paper and draft ID Cards Bill (pdf) b. Briefing sent to Labour MPs (pdf) c. Prime Minister there is “no longer a civil liberties” objection to ID cards d. “The Government intends to introduce, a national compulsory ID cards scheme using an individual biometric identifier linked to a new national database” – to fight “terrorism” and give “the freedom to do easily things like travel to Florida on holiday” – David Blunkett, Home Secretary: Statewatch article e. Identity cards in the UK – a lesson from history f. No to ID cards website: no2id (link)