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The photo Panopticon

U.K. to issue biometric passports worldwide

UK ID Card Battle Heats Up

LSE report on ID cards

No re-think on ID cards

ID card rebels offer compromise

ID cards bill passes second Commons reading

ID card plans are back and 'more popular'

Putting the pan into Panopticon

State Bill to Limit RFID

Surveillance Works Both Ways

Tracking systems may be put on cars

ID cards/passport integration plan progresses

Privacy advocates frown on Amazon snooping plan

Travelling with the Big Brother

Coming to a bin near you, the spy that tells how much rubbish you create

House of Commons passes biometric ID card Bill

Woolly defence of tagging sheep

ID cards passed

If you value your freedom, reject this sinister ID card

What Price Privacy?

Quote of the day

Ask to see my ID card and I'll eat it

Biometric pilot program to tighten U.S. borders

Big Brother's Passport to Pry

Blunkett presses on with compulsory ID card plans

2-Fingerprint Border ID System Called Inadequate

Privacy Eroding, Bit by Byte

Tracking RFID - it's everywhere

Privacy questions arise as RFID hits stores

NO2ID official launch

Static over RFID

Big Brother in Chicago

Biometrics in the US

Welsh ID card trial launched

RFID tags: The people say no

All That Secrecy Is Expensive

Under-skin ID tags generate concerns

Trading Privacy for Convenience

Big Brother goes to the Olympics

'I've got a biometric ID card'

Beware rise of Big Brother state

Passport ID Technology Has High Error Rate

German start-up launches human body transmitters

Government is data obsessed

Big Brother Awards

RFID tags become hacker target

Biometric Passport Program Hits Snag

They've got your number

9/11 report urges info sharing, biometrics

Personal data out of control

Life After Death for CAPPS II?

RFID users say no privacy law needed

The age of distributed threat

Schoolchildren to be RFID-chipped

Privacy in Iceland

Microsoft, biometrics firm to tackle homeland security

Attention, Shoppers: You Can Now Speed Straight Through Checkout Lines!

Terror, Europe and others

I've got you under my skin

RFID-enabled license plates to identify UK vehicles

Biometrics Bandwagon Outpacing Privacy Safeguards

Watchdog's 'alarm' over ID cards

RFID and privacy: Debate heating up in Washington

Up and down... and up again tomorrow

Mistaken Identity, missing politicians

U.S. Nearing Deal on Way to Track Foreign Visitors

Scots jump on board UK biometric ID card trial

ID card backlash: is the poll tax effect kicking in?

US, Belgian biometric passports give lie to UK ID scheme

The Case Against ID Cards: A Principled Approach

Long lashes thwart ID scan trial

Britain's biometric ID cards postponed

Biometric IDs OK With U.K.

It has to be permanent

"The Times" and identity cards

Biometric ID: 'Will work, will happen and will be popular'

Blunkett threatens to fine refuseniks £2,500

U.K. passport agency begins trial on biometric IDs

ID Bill will give officers right to scan eyes

There’s no way to play these appalling cards right

Muslim women exempt from ID card photos

Citizen tagging just gets cheaper

Data Surveillance

Senators Question TSA Denials

RFID Pressed Into Service For Roadway Safety

Biometric ID card bill on its way 'in a month'

TSA eyes RFID boarding passes to track airline passengers

Smart cameras to watch over London Tube

ID cards get the go-ahead

The RFID Scanner

Passport Safety, Privacy Face Off

Are you the master of your own data?

Privacy, business and government

Supremes Weigh In on ID Debate

Government IT must consider privacy, ethics

The RFID Privacy Scare Is Overblown

America's Flimsy Fortress

U.S. Urged To Take Lead In issuing Biometric Passports

Anti-RFID tags protect privacy

Fighting for Right Not to Show ID

RFID may give "Tag, you're it!" a whole new meaning

Airline passenger screening system faces delays

Foes Assault Passenger Screening

Blunkett attacked over secret trials for terror suspects

The fish that threatened national security

Biometrics Enters Third Dimension

Re:Viewing 2003 - Privacy and monitoring

Safeway: RFID will become "ubiquitous"

Snooping industry set to grow

Cell-Phone Tech Maintains Privacy

Police to get new powers

Errant E-Mail Shames RFID Backer

Disaster plans due to be unveiled

US takes fingerprints and photos of foreign visitors

Identity Crisis

Plug for Spy Blog

The Listerner's Law

Arizona school installs facial scan system

How Much Is Privacy Worth?

U.K. to consider national biometric ID cards database

Congress Puts Brakes on CAPPS II

Blair plans new laws to curb civil liberties

Patriot Act may threaten civil liberties

Biometric cards will not stop identity fraud

Lawyers and civil liberties groups condemn jury curbs

Liberty on Blunkett's ID card push

The home steamroller

Compulsory ID cards by back door

Whatever the question, ID cards aren't the answer

Identity Cards The Next Steps

Blunkett ID scheme near

Compulsory identity cards are put on hold

No home to privacy

ID cards in Parliament Debate

Mandatory retention of telecoms data unlawful

Liberty groups attack plan for EU health ID card

Villagers given speed guns to trap motorists

Police recruit milkmen

Blair says: ID cards a question of cost

Darling joins cabinet opponents of ID card

ISP fights back

ID theft undermining integrated terror watch lists

Brown and Straw fight Blunkett's ID card scheme

Mistaken identity

ID cards test fuels fears over privacy

EU on the road to 1984

Secret go-ahead for ID card database

Taiwan hands out 22 million ID cards

If they can't get you, they get your children...

Blunkett's oppression

Identity cards Q&A

Pub owners call for ID cards

UK police and ISPs debate legal access to email

Tobacco industry slams EU move to ban public smoking

Privacy law cracks down on spammers

Charity commission given 'snooping' powers

2003 World Privacy Survey

EU privacy 'blocking terror fight'

Police say ID cards "a must" to stop terror

Wheel life: The thought police are on their way

New Liberty Director warns supermarkets: 'We are watching you'

Florida security camera system fails

Tesco ends trial of CCTV spy chip on razor blades

Indignant activists demand names go on police list

RFID blocker may ease privacy fears

Biometric passport 'back door to ID cards'

Dangerous razors

IP Enforcement Directive - DMCA on steroids

Watchdog set to reject genetic screening

Catholic doctrine criminal in Ireland

Citizens' privacy

E-government?... Give me a break

A few years of reprieve?

Liberty appoints new Director

More political posturing

Britain - a secret history

Health "entitlement cards"

White Rose quote of the day

Privacy pendulum swings back

ID cards in the UK - a lesson from history

Badge of 'suspected terrorist'

A letter from Brussels

Uncle Sam is watching you

Identity fraud by asylum seekers

Technological insecurity

One in 30 on DNA database

Cabinet clears ID cards

Letter to Guardian

A smelly voice of protest...

Civil Contingencies Draft Bill

Liberty Comment on ID card proposal

Blunkett's card trick

Blunkett's ID cards 'threat to freedom'

CCTV camera success

Common law no right to privacy

Still not the British way...

Lords on vitamins

FBI warns Mexican ID card a threat

Treated like criminals

White Rose quote of the day

Liberty across spectrum

March of control freaks

Liberty chief to watch police

DNA database by stealth

Blunkett to give us a finger

Mistaken identity

Traveller's tale

Policing by plastic

'It's not about Fortress Britain' says minister for immigration

Welcome to White Rose

Government plays for time over ID cards

ID card is fraudster's friend

Government unveils new ID fraud law

Invisible hunchbacked dwarves

Tagged by end of summer

Moore's law threat to privacy

Blunkett is not amused...

Ticket, check passport, check eye drops

Here's your new ID card - for you, £25

Digital ID tags coming to euro notes

An identity crisis