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News Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke also came out fighting for ID cards in a Channel 4 documentary - Fighting Identity Fraud - at the weekend, claiming they will improve the quality of people's lives and enhance security. [06 Mar 2007]
Tech must not invade privacy, says EU data protection head
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke in particular championed the need for more invasive data retention laws, saying the directive was necessary in order to prevent terrorism. Think of the Computer Misuse Act, for example, rarely updated as often as the... [07 Apr 2006]
UK's "FBI" takes on cyber-criminals
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke said in a statement: "I am today sending the organised criminal underworld a clear message: be afraid. Clarke said the new agency will "exploit hi-tech 21st century technology and uncover the new wave of crime bosses". [03 Apr 2006]
Leader: ID cards fight must go on
Leader Home Secretary Charles Clarke, frustrated by the delays in passing the bill, has wasted no time and the new Identity and Passport Service begins work in earnest from this Saturday - April Fool's day, no less. [31 Mar 2006]
New ID cards agency set up after Queen approves bill
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke has already announced that the Labour government will make the scheme compulsory if it wins the next general election and a new agency to issue passports and ID cards has already been set up. [31 Mar 2006]
ID cards to be mandatory by 2010
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke said pricing for the ID cards will be determined once the bill becomes law. Law makers have agreed to a compromise proposal that will see ID cards become mandatory for passport holders by 2010. [30 Mar 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.03.06
Round-Up On and on with the government chasing victory on Centre Court and the Lords' returns frustrating but not dominating the arguments of Charles Clarke. Home Secretary Charles Clarke sends the ID Card Bill fizzing over the net but the Lords counter... [24 Mar 2006]
Government slams Lords over ID card blocking tactics
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke said the Lords' continued opposition to the ID cards bill is "unacceptable". The government wants to avoid having to use the Parliament Act to force through the ID card legislation as it would mean a further delay in... [22 Mar 2006]
Lords defeat ID cards bill for fourth time
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke has threatened to use the Parliament Act to force the bill through in the next session if the Lords continues its opposition to the bill. Peers in the House of Lords defeated the government's ID cards bill for a fourth... [20 Mar 2006]
ID cards battle deadlocked
News During the debate on Thursday Home Secretary Charles Clarke accused peers of "breaking the conventions of parliament" and ignoring "the will of the people". The ID cards battle remains deadlocked after MPs again overturned a House of Lords... [16 Mar 2006]
MPs back compulsory ID cards
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke insisted - to much laughter and jeers from opposition MPs in the Commons on Monday evening - that "passports are voluntary documents". The government won the vote to overturn the Lords' amendment with a majority of 33... [14 Mar 2006]
New work-permit rules 'will help plug UK IT skills gap'
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke said: "This new system will give employers and educational institutions a stronger role in the managed migration system and will introduce a more transparent and objective method of points-based structured decision... [08 Mar 2006]
Lords block ID cards again
News In a vote earlier in the day the Lords gave in to the government on the issue of the cost of the scheme after Home Secretary Charles Clarke agreed at the last vote in the House of Commons to report to parliament every six months on the ID card costs. [07 Mar 2006]
Compulsory ID cards for UK citizens within five years
News Home Secretary Charles Clarke has indicated the government would move to do this by 2011. A rebellion over an amendment that would have forced the government to make the full cost calculations of the ID card scheme public before awarding any... [14 Feb 2006]
Leader: ID cards victory for silicon.com campaign
Leader That all changed on Monday, however when peers finally had their say on Charles Clarke's legislation. In the absence of anything of substance to defend its proposals the Home Office and Clarke, however, are still maintaining they will not back down... [17 Jan 2006]
