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ID card bill gets Tory boost
News Tory leader Michael Howard has quashed disagreement within the shadow cabinet to officially offer Conservative backing to Downing Street's ID card plans. Some senior Conservatives had voiced dissatisfaction about the plans for a UK-wide identity...
[December 14, 2004, 13:55]
Government under fire over ID cards
News The Conservative Party has already said it would scrap the ID card scheme if it wins the next general election, and shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, said the decision by the government not to make ID cards compulsory makes the scheme "even...
[July 2, 2009, 9:14]
ID cards for foreign nationals unveiled
News It does not matter how fancy the design of ID cards is, they remain a grotesque intrusion on the liberty of the British people," said Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrats shadow home secretary. Conservative shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve said...
[September 25, 2008, 18:14]
Tories attack Labour surveillance schemes
News Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, has criticised the ID-card scheme, among other government projects, in his speech at the Conservative conference. He said that neither Gordon Brown nor Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, had referred to the...
[October 1, 2008, 13:18]
Guardian
Downloads Guardian features an advanced shadow copy system; in 90% of casesthe program is not deleted after a hard-reset. Every time you switch on your mobile telephone, Guardian proceeds with authentication of the inserted sim card; if authentication fails...
[December 2, 2006, 6:00]
ID cards fuel leap in consultancy costs
News Home Office spending on consultants shot up from £7.6m in 1997/98 to £147m in 2006/07, a period described by shadow home secretary David Davis as the "worst period in its 200-year history". The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 percent...
[April 14, 2008, 8:42]
ID cards may be delayed until 2012
News According to a strategy paper marked "restricted" and leaked to David Davis, the shadow home secretary, the government is planning to roll out the second phase of its ID card scheme in 2012, two years later than planned.
[January 23, 2008, 12:58]
Lib Dems criticise gov't over latest data losses
News The revelation on Tuesday of the loss of a personal computer from cabinet minister Hazel Blears's Salford office, coupled with two instances of civil servants leaving top-secret documents on trains from Waterloo this week, calls into question the...
[June 19, 2008, 8:05]
Fujitsu shrugs off Tory threat to cancel ID cards
News The party's shadow home secretary, David Davis, has written to Fujitsu Services and the other vendors stating the Conservatives' intention to cancel the ID card scheme if they win the general election, which must be held by 2010.
[June 4, 2008, 8:56]
Fresh calls to bin ID cards as IT suppliers dwindle
News But shadow home secretary David Davis said: "Along with growing evidence of the risks and costs of ID cards, we have seen declining commercial interest, reflected in the dwindling numbers bidding for contracts.
[May 27, 2008, 8:15]
Clarke pledges to push on with ID cards
News George Osborne, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, denied his party was acting against the interests of national security in scrutinising the bill. We believe we can carry the ID card bill," he told BBC's Newsnight programme.
[April 6, 2005, 17:35]
Tories pledge to end the database state
News The shadow justice secretary, Dominic Grieve, on Wednesday introduced a policy paper, Reversing the Rise of the Surveillance State, that outlines 11 measures to achieve these goals. The shadow minister promised that while the Conservatives' plans...
[September 16, 2009, 16:22]
Gov't awards £400m biometric-passport contract
News Recent catastrophes involving personal data clearly demonstrate the inability of the government to handle sensitive information," Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary, Chris Huhne, said recently. The biometric passports are part of a wider...
[June 12, 2009, 11:54]
Government overspends on IT by £1bn
News The Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary, Nick Clegg, said that the second report not only showed that costs for the scheme were "spiralling out of control", but that the Government had deliberately broken the law in keeping the report under...
[May 11, 2007, 17:53]
Lib Dems: Don't count on Tories over surveillance
News The Conservatives do not go far enough in opposing government surveillance and databases, Liberal Democrat shadow ministers have argued at their annual conference. In a speech on 21 September, Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor Vince Cable repeated...
[September 23, 2009, 8:45]
Top Tory resigns over 'database state'
News Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned over what he called "the slow strangulation of fundamental British freedoms by this government". Davis will be replaced as shadow home secretary by Dominic Grieve, the member of parliament for...
[June 12, 2008, 14:57]
Politicians go in for some IT bashing
Blog Although mistaking the Tory party for anything more than an extremely skilled spin device at present - think a Dyson washing machine - would be a serious mistake, we were slightly impressed by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne's very tech-savvy...
[March 19, 2007, 16:10]
ID card battle remains deadlocked
News But Conservative shadow home secretary, David Davis, said the government's election manifesto - promising an initially voluntary ID card rollout - was "intended to mislead". The ID cards battle remains deadlocked after MPs again overturned a House...
[March 16, 2006, 15:30]
MP: ID card scheme is 'doomed to failure'
News Nick Clegg MP, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, said that the official study on trials of iris-recognition equipment at airports had highlighted major failures in the technology. But critics at No2ID, the anti-ID card pressure group...
[January 15, 2007, 12:36]
Tories join ID card opponents
News The public services should offer "serious protection" of every individual's privacy, the shadow home secretary said on 19 May, 2004. Taking part in a public meeting on the proposed national ID card held at the London School of Economics, David...
[May 20, 2004, 12:10]
