Today's news:
Offender IT failure 'avoidable'
Plans for a multi-million pound central database on offenders failed because of poor management and a lack of budget control, the spending watchdog says.
The National Audit Office said the abandoned IT project's rising costs and delays could have been avoided if basic management rules had been followed.
A real point to the UK ID Card scheme is that the government has
planned a budget [sic] for the ID card scheme to cost 0.5 billion pounds a year for the next ten years.
yes folks, that's half a billion of *your* tax pounds every year on a scheme that under it's own terms is unworkable.
previous points made over the ID card scheme remain.
From a previous post of mine regarding the ID card scheme:
The European court of human rights found in favour of the plaintiff's in
S. and Marper v. the United Kingdom a breach of human rights in their DNA being retained without conviction.
While it is implied that no-one will be forced to hold an ID card, it is implicit that to gain airside access in order to undertake one's employment will require the issuance of an ID card.
Ergo, while you are not forced to have an ID card, you have to make the choice of an ID card or your job.
While the EUCHR has found a breach of human rights in the holding of biometric data without criminal conviction, the implication here is that the UK government is doubly countermanding your human rights by way of you having to accept your human rights being violated to retain your job.
A point here i would like to consider is that there is a requirement for a criminal conviction certificate to be provided in order to be issued with an airside pass. There is no specific requirement noted as to when the certificate is issued. That is to say, if i am already in possession of a CRB check certificate then that should be sufficient for the issuance of an airside pass.
You can go to any police station, pay the 5 pounds, or whatever it is right now, and have a CRB check done and be issued with a certificate confirming no arrests/conviction. This would then be acceptable for the issuance of an airside pass WITHOUT the ID card.
*post in full is here*