blunkett in comment and analysis
The Yearly Round-Up: 22.12.05
Round-Up While Home Secretary Charles Clarke - and his predecessor the scandal-prone David Blunkett - would have us believe these cards will cure all manner of society's ills, the House of Lords isn't quite so convinced. [22 Dec 2005]
Opinion: Like it or not, here come ID cards
Comment When the UK government, under previous Home Secretary David Blunkett, first attempted to place its proposal for its ID card legislation before parliament, I thought that the many technical, fiscal and civil liberties objections presented a sound... [31 May 2005]
Leader: Blunkett should rethink ID card "folly"
Leader Home Secretary David Blunkett threw down the gauntlet to privacy activists and ID card opponents today claiming that the store loyalty cards we keep in our wallets are a bigger invasion of privacy than the UK's proposed biometric ID card scheme... [17 Nov 2004]
Leader: UK ID cards - devil is in the detail
Leader Home Secretary David Blunkett has made some final changes to his ID card proposals that could now see the bill make its way through Parliament starting with its inclusion in the Queen's speech next month. [27 Oct 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Does the UK need ID cards?
Comment UK Home Secretary David Blunkett figures in this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters poll because of his advocacy for schemes such as ID cards for all. Whether or not you believe in the benefits of ID cards, the campaign for them in the UK may well... [19 Oct 2004]
Biometrics: Your questions answered
Comment Once the biometric enrolment trials finish in September and the results are published it is expected Blunkett will move to give the bill a speedy passage through Parliament. Mindful of potential opposition to them, David Blunkett first proposed a... [20 Aug 2004]
Devil's Advocate: The big deal of government buying small
Comment Notably, David Blunkett's pet scheme, the national ID card, needs a database of the entire population of the UK. The issue of government procurement of IT is hardly a new one. But, asks Martin Brampton, is the current approach entirely the wrong... [09 Mar 2004]
Protecting your ID: All the commentary and analysis
Comment Can Blunkett's scheme for the UK work? Leader: Who do you think you are? Where we're coming from. ID theft: Who's getting hold of your personal data? Will Sturgeon looks at online threats - and whether your dustbin is a much more dangerous place. [02 Jan 2004]
UK faces massive ID card challenges
Comment It is currently proposed that the ID card will not need to be carried at all times but Blunkett's draft Bill includes powers for the government to make it compulsory. But Blunkett argues that the introduction of electronic ID cards in Britain will... [01 Dec 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Sick Note
Comment Only recently this column discussed the trend, and in the Silicon.com's Agenda Setters 2003 poll of people with the most influence on technology, David Blunkett scored highly. The government is talking up its integrated electronic patient record... [14 Oct 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Aren't we more than just a number?
Comment David Blunkett is still agitating to have records kept of every email, phone call and internet session. There are all sorts of good reasons for CCTV, mobile phone tracking and a national database of citizens and their DNA, the government tells us. [30 Sep 2003]
Biometrics still not ready for business
Comment David Blunkett may be pushing ahead regardless of privacy and cost concerns with plans for a biometric national ID card to tackle the 'threat' of immigration and terrorism, but the private sector is taking much more considered steps. [23 Sep 2003]
Don't blame the technology for 'Big Brother' society
Comment So is it just coincidence that David Blunkett, the Home Secretary who seems to be using the book as his own personal policy guide, chooses this day to reinforce the message that the police need to exploit technology wherever possible to keep ahead... [25 Jun 2003]
Government change of heart over RIP - a pat on the back
Comment Home Secretary David Blunkett this week withdrew proposals which may now be left on the shelf indefinitely. The government's shelving of plans to increase its and certain agencies' rights to snoop on all manner of private communications is a... [19 Jun 2002]
The best of Reader Comments: Acronym meltdown - take it easy on the ASP and the MPs
Comment Education Secretary: You are not allowed to speak to Mr Blunkett's office unless you are known to them! Reader response, however, was slightly more generous.http://www.silicon.com/a44605 You know it makes sense [25 May 2001]
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