| Archived News (2007) |
21st Nov 2007
 | UK families put on fraud alert
Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing. This highlights the governments complacency at holding private information and managing national databases. The ID Card scheme should be halted immediately whilst an independent audit of all personal information held on government systems is carried out. |
21st Aug 2007
| Paper calls for local ID cards
A think tank has argued that local authority "entitlement cards" could be more practical than the National Identity Card. |
21st Aug 2007
| Liberal Democrats launch attack on Brown's 'surveillance society'
Liberal Democrat leaders are to mount an attack on Britain's 'surveillance society' that threatens to wreck Gordon Brown's hopes of a cross-party consensus on measures to tackle the threat of terrorism. |
4th Jul 2007
| Brown and Cameron clash over ID
Gordon Brown and David Cameron have clashed over plans to introduce identity cards in their first prime minister's questions encounter. |
4th Jul 2007
| Heathrow begins biometric trials
Passengers at Heathrow airport are being invited to sign up for a trial of the most advanced passenger screening equipment in the world. |
19th Apr 2007
| Cautious Brown keeps option of scrapping ID card scheme
Gordon Brown has left open the option of scrapping the identity card scheme if he becomes Prime Minister. |
31st Mar 2007
| Five civil servants suspended over 'DNA espionage'
Five civil servants who help run the national DNA database have been suspended after being accused of industrial espionage. It is alleged they copied confidential information and used it to set up a rival database in competition with their employers, the Government's Forensic Science Service. |
27th Mar 2007
| ID cards top your list of brainless laws
The Identity Cards Act and human rights legislation are the laws that most Daily Telegraph readers would like the Tories to repeal if they win power. |
26th Mar 2007
| Hi-Tech 'threat' to private life
Bombs triggered by the presence of people with specific biometric traits may soon be feasible, warns a report. |
20th Feb 2007
| ID cards 'will allow crime fingerprint checks'
People who get identity cards will have their fingerprints checked against those found at the scene of nearly a million unsolved crimes, Tony Blair said last night. This contradicts earlier assurances |
6th Feb 2007
| Tories warn on ID card contracts
The Conservatives have written to Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell to give formal notice that they would scrap identity cards if elected. |
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