ID cards could help turn Britain into a surveillance society, warn MPs / Guardian, June 9 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/09/idcards.civilliberties?gusrc=rss&feed=politics Nicholas Watt
"A compulsory national identity card scheme could be used to monitor the movements of British citizens because of the dangers of "function creep", a committee of MPs warned yesterday. Britain is in danger of turning into a "surveillance society", the Commons home affairs select committee says in a report which calls on the government to promise that the multibillion-pound ID card scheme will not be used as a matter of routine to spy on people."