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Supermarket Loyalty Cards Vs National ID Cards

Posted by samzenpus on from the track-everything dept.

john.wingfield writes "The BBC is running a story on a speech David Blunkett, the British Home Secretary, has given on ID cards and supermarket loyalty cards. He criticises the data protection arrangements for the loyalty cards whilst simultaneously (hypocritically?) promoting his own national ID card scheme, which is exempt from the Data Protection Act 1998. See also the UK Information Commissioner's (data protection and freedom of information watchdog) concerns about the ID card scheme."

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    why is it that /. is so slow. Fark had the last two articles in the morning (or early afternoon)