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Media Watch - ID Cards

Blunkett to intro UK ID cards, via £25 passport tax
Tuesday, 3rd June 2003
The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30843.html

Ministry denies ID survey fix
Monday, 2nd June 2003
KableNet
http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/Frontpage/9BDD7713ACE6E76680256D39005693E7?OpenDocument

Tories Urge Entitlement Cards to Cut NHS Abuse
Sunday, 1st June 2003
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/02/nhs02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/06/02/ixportal.html

ID card 'tricks' anger net users
Friday, 30th May 2003
BBC News

Government may ignore ID card opposition
Friday, 30th May 2003
ZDNet UK
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2135431,00.html

Policing by plastic
Friday, 30th May 2003
The Guardian
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/comment/0,11026,966753,00.html

Strategies to defeat the terrorist threat
Wednesday, 28th May 2003
Computing
http://www.computing.co.uk/News/1141224

Identity crisis
Sunday, 25th May 2003
The Observer
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/comment/0,11026,963310,00.html

Labour faces ID cards rebellion
Saturday, 24th May 2003
The Guardian
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,962549,00.html

UK citizens will be forced to have ID cards
Friday, 23rd May 2003
The Inquirer
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9631

ID cards will 'infringe civil liberties'
Friday, 23rd May 2003
BBC News

Blunkett favours ID scheme
Friday, 23rd May 2003
Channel 4 News
http://www.channel4.com/apps26/news/news_story.jsp?storyId=1571055

ID cards to cut asylum abuses
Friday, 23rd May 2003
The Guardian
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,961934,00.html

ID cards for all in battle to track immigrants
Friday, 23rd May 2003
The Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-689427,00.html

Blunkett presses ahead with national biometric ID card plan
Friday, 23rd May 2003
Silicon.Com
http://silicon.com/news/500022-500010/1/4337.html

Biometric ID cards 'dangerously flawed'
Friday, 23rd May 2003
Silicon.Com
http://silicon.com/news/500022-500001/1/4326.html

ID cards: civic dream or Orwellian nightmare?
Tuesday, 19 November 2002
BBC News

ID cards for school dinner
Monday, 11 November 2002
The South Manchester Reporter
http://www.southmanchesterreporter.co.uk/news/index/articles/article_id=3841.html

National ID Cards for the UK
Monday, 14 October 2002
The Encyclopedia of Computer Security
http://www.itsecurity.com/commentary/stories/1_3_5.htm

Teenagers 'used to introduce ID cards by stealth'
Friday, 4 October 2002
The Telegraph
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/10/04/nid04.xml&secure;
Refresh=true&_requestid=62772

ID cards 'will sneak in fingerprint database'
Wednesday, 4 September 2002
The Independent

£70 ID card to combine passport and car licence
Thursday, 4 July 2002
The Telegraph
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/07/04/ncard04.xml

Blunkett admits his enthusiasm for universal ID cards
Thursday, 4 July 2002
The Independent

Blunkett backs ID card plan
Thursday, 4 July 2002
BBC NEWS

At a glance: ID card plans
Wednesday, 3 July 2002
BBC NEWS

Will we carry the card?
Wednesday, 3 July 2002
BBC NEWS

Other countries' ID schemes
Wednesday, 3 July 2002
BBC NEWS

ID or not ID: what the papers say
Sunday, 7 July 2002
The Observer
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,750832,00.html

Health risk warning over ID cards
Friday, 5 July 2002
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,749528,00.html

Suspects or citizens ID cards foster intrusion not rights
Thursday, 4 July 2002
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,748768,00.html

Blunkett puts his cards on the table
Thursday, 4 July 2002
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,748821,00.html

Scheme meets criticism across the political spectrum
Thursday, 4 July 2002
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,748823,00.html

Blunkett unveils ID card proposals
Wednesday, 3 July 2002
The Guardian
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,748444,00.html

Rebellion over plans for ID card
MPs declare war over Blunkett move
Sunday, 30 June 2002
The Observer
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,746676,00.html

Blunkett's identity crisis
The proposed ID cards may be 'voluntary', but if you're poor you'll have to carry one
Sunday, 30 June 2002
The Observer
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,746702,00.html

ID cards - a dumb idea and dangerous too
Sunday, 30 June 2002
The Observer
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,746793,00.html

Media Watch - General

Surgical tags plan for sex offenders: Silicon chip to be inserted under skin
Sunday, November 17 2002
The Observer
http://www.observer.co.uk/crimedebate/story/0,12079,841963,00.html

Police to get new powers to hold suspects
Tuesday, 19 November 2002
The Independent

German secret service taps phones, bills buggees
Monday, 4 November 2002
The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/27917.html

Security forces' snooping errors revealed
Friday, November 1 2002
The Financial Times
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c;=
StoryFT&cid;=1035872918038&p;=1012571727085

Voiceprint Technology
Wednesday, 18 September 2002
BBC News

Bike Cops Get CCTV Helmets
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
The Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-409759,00.html?gavalidate

Girl to get tracker implant to ease parents' fears
Tuesday, 3 September 2002
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4493297,00.html

Cap Cyborg to chip 11 year old in wake of UK child killings
Monday, 2 September 2002
The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/26908.html

EU snooping plans dwarfed by UK laws
Tuesday, 20 August 2002
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/netprivacy/article/0,2763,777969,00.html

Privacy fear over plan to store email
Tuesday, 20 August 2002
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/netprivacy/article/0,2763,777574,00.html

Fingerprinting of UK school kids causes outcry
Monday, 22 July 2002
The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26305.html

UK pushes boundaries of citizen surveillance
Wednesday, 12 June 2002
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/netprivacy/article/0,2763,736011,00.html

First people injected with ID chips, sales drive kicks off
Monday, 10 June 2002
The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25640.html

Government to build new email and surfing surveillance centre
Tuesday, 2nd May 2000
ZDNet
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2078689,00.html