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  • UK: ID cards 'contrary to British values'

    'Unworkable, expensive, dangerous', says Tory group

    The chairman of a group of Tory MPs issued a report yesterday slamming the government's plans for national identity cards.

    In a paper published on the Bow Group's website, Peter Lilley MP, former Secretary of State for Trade And Industry, was highly critical of Labour's plans to introduce identity cards, branding them unworkable, expensive and potentially dangerous.

  • UK: Questions remain unanswered over government's ID project

    The issues raised in Computing's three-part series on plans for ID cards have clearly struck a chord.

    This week the all-party Commons Home Affairs Committee announced an inquiry into the government's proposals for a biometric identity card and a biometric element in driving licences and passports.

  • USA: ‘Connect ME’ is Maine’s Mantra For 90 Percent Broadband by 2010

    When it comes to broadband, the state of Maine is doing a lot with a little in order to keep a big promise.

    In 2005, Gov. John Baldacci announced the Connect Maine initiative and said that by focused on investing in broadband infrastructure in unserved areas, it would “ensure that 90% of Maine communities have broadband access by 2010.”

    When Gov. Baldacci made this promise in 2005, the state pieced together data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the state Public Utilities Commission and estimated that, only 74% of Maine households had access to broadband.

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