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Eastbourne joins 32 councils in rejecting the principle of ID cards |
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Thursday, 24 January 2008, Eastbourne Herald
Identity cards will not be welcome in Eastbourne - that's the message local councillors are sending to the Government. A
motion put before Eastbourne Borough Council last Wednesday criticising
plans to introduce ID cards received cross-party support.
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ID cards not welcome in Wales |
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Wednesday, 16 December 2008, newswales.co.uk
A Welsh Liberal Democrat debate calling for ID Cards not to be used to access public services in Wales has been passed with unanimous cross party support.
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New power to seize passports |
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Sunday, 23 December 2007, The Sunday Times
Gordon Brown has set himself on a collision course with the legal establishment over plans to give civil servants and government agencies the power to remove people’s passports without going through the courts
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Fears over pan-EU electronic identity network |
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007, The Daily Telegraph
New concerns have been raised over the Government's multi-billion-pound
ID project as it emerged that Britain's identity database could be
shared with 26 other European Union countries. The Home Office is taking part in a scheme, codenamed Stork, which aims
to make all EU electronic identity networks ''inter-operable'' within
three years.
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ID cards must be scrapped now, say MPs |
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Thursday, 22 November 2007, The Daily Telegraph
The future of Labour's identity card project was increasingly in doubt
yesterday as MPs called for the scheme to be scrapped following the
loss of the child benefit records.
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Passengers forced to answer 53 questions before they travel |
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Thursday, 15 November 2007, The Daily Mail
Travellers face price hikes and confusion after the Government unveiled
plans to take up to 53 pieces of information from anyone entering or
leaving Britain
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Terror police 'shot' man in coma |
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Thursday, 15 November 2007, news.bbc.co.uk
A man who had gone into a diabetic coma on a bus in Leeds was shot
twice with a Taser gun by police who feared he may have been a security
threat
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UK terror detention limit is longest of any democracy |
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Monday, 12 November 2007, The Guardian
Britain's existing 28-day limit on holding terror suspects without charge is already far longer than that for any comparable democracy
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Terror detentions: how UK compares to rest of world |
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Monday, 12 November 2007, The Guardian
The research by Liberty, the human rights organisation, showing that Britain's existing 28-day limit on detention of terror suspects without charge is already the longest in any comparable democracy is based on legal advice from leading lawyers and academics in 15 countries
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Cost of ID card and passport rises to £100 |
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Friday, 9 November 2007, The Guardian
The cost of providing an identity card combined with a new-generation biometric passport has now passed the £100 mark as the latest official estimate yesterday put the total price tag of the scheme at £5.6bn over the next 10 years.
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Clegg vows to defy ID cards law |
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007, The Guardian
Nick Clegg, the odds-on favourite to become Liberal Democrat leader, yesterday announced that he will break the law and refuse to provide details of his identity if the government presses ahead with plans to make ID cards compulsory
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Microchip gives staff the lowdown on pupils |
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Friday, October 20 2007, The Times
Children are being tracked by micro-chips embedded in their uniforms in a trial at a secondary school. The
devices are used to monitor pupils’ movements and register their
arrival in class on the teacher’s computer. Supply teachers can also be
alerted if a student is likely to misbehave.
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School puts a chip on pupils |
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Wednesday, 18 October 2007, Doncaster Free Press
Secondary school pupils are having their "every step traced" under a
new monitoring system which sees a microchip embedded in their school
uniform.
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