Town hall bureaucrats could snoop on people's homes with threat of£2,500 fines... Town hall bureaucrats could snoop on people’s homes with threat of£2,500 fines The small print of an obscure ...

I wonder whether it was incredible chutzpah or mere ignorance on the part of our Chancellor Alistair Darling. On the Today programme, he suggested that the loss of records on half the population was ...

The Home Office has denied a report the personal details of millions of Britons could be sold to help pay for the introduction of identity cards. The Independent on Sunday newspaper reported ...

The cabinet has secretly given the go-ahead to the chancellor, Gordon Brown, to set up Britain's first national population computer database that is the foundation stone for a compulsory identity card ...

Tough new punishments for people who misuse the ID card database have been announced by Prime Minister Tony Blair. Anyone found guilty of tampering with it will face up to 10 years in prison. And ...

Identity cards may be history for British citizens - but what about all the personal details collected by the government and stored on its national identity database? Anyone who imagined it would ...

The government must be quietly grateful to the distractions of August. Only Computer Weekly noticed that nine local authority workers have been sacked for accessing the personal records of celebrities ...

The House of Lords overturned proposals to place everyone who applies for a new passport or driving licence on the database that will underpin the controversial scheme. In a second reverse for ...

The intelligence services will be given unprecedented access to the government database underpinning the controversial identity card scheme, the Home Office said yesterday, prompting accusations of ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The semi-government agency behind India's national identity card project on Saturday denied a report by news website ZDNet that the programme has been hit by another security ...

Identity cards may be history for British citizens - but what about all the personal details collected by the government and stored on its national identity database? Anyone who imagined it would ...