Are passport fees paying for ID cards?
– Computer Weekly 8/5/09 +* Bill Crothers, CIO of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), and its chief executive, James Hall, tell it like it is. Sometimes when officials talk to journalists they know immediately what the reporter wants to write – and they confuse, deliberately or not. Crothers and Hall are not like that. Two things were clear to us at the outset – before the interview – and were still clear afterwards. www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/04/08/ 235570/are-passport-fees-paying-for-id-cards.htm *+ Ploughing on – The Economist 7/5/09 +* Toothbrush, soap, biometric fingerprints: shopping lists at pharmacies will soon be more exotic, now that the government has announced plans to let chemists, post offices and assorted other high-street shops process applications for its controversial new identity cards. On May 6th Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, announced that from this autumn the scheme, which until now has applied only to certain non-European folk, would be tried o
