Tuesday, June 13, 2006

UK Government Must Publish Secret Report on ID Cards

James Murray writes in IT Week:

The government may soon be forced to release many of its secret reports on the costs, benefits and risks of its controversial identity (ID) card scheme after the information commissioner last week ordered it to release a secret Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) feasibility study on the initiative.

The ruling followed a complaint to the data-protection and freedom of information (FoI) watchdog from Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten in 2004, after the DWP refused his parliamentary question request to release the report.

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