The Home Secretary announces a mandatory universal ID card, promising that it would protect the UK against illegal migration and working, organised crime, terrorist activity, identity theft, and fraudulent access to public services.
table thing. http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-79542&headline=UK+ID+Card+moving+forward+despite+significant+opposition
15/09/2004
Over 90 non-governmental organizations and 80 companies have endorsed Privacy International's call on the European Commission to abandon on a proposed retention regime across Europe of between 1 and 3 years for all communications traffic data. In this response, PI argues that data retention is invasive, illusory in its gains, illegal in its goals, and that the policy process surrounding retention is illegimate. http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-71913&headline=Privacy+International+responds+to+the+European+Commission+on+Data+Retention