Civil rights concerns Civil rights campaign group Liberty has accused the government of effectively introducing an identity tax.
Con Edison, as the company is popularly known, is introducing the identity overhaul this week, along with a logo -- the stylized letters "c" and "e" nested together -- meant to symbolize its business operations.
PAGE A21 Britain Proposes National ID Britain announced a plan to begin introducing national identity cards for the first time since the World War II era, citing concerns about terrorism and organized crime.
I believed that introducing real identity — names and faces — into the anonymous free-for-all of the Internet, would lead to accountability, and that this was a necessary, if not sufficient condition for online discourse.
Ontario will be introducing gender identity and sexual orientation to third graders but mostly as a form of "accepting our differences".
Some say policy logic leads back to where former home secretary David Blunkett found himself 12 years ago, introducing identity cards – at a cost then of up to £3.1bn.
It comes as the centrist Labour pressure group, Progress, proposed introducing identity cards for public services as a means of keeping Britain inside the single market.
When a senior official acknowledged the government was considering introducing identity checks last November, some doctors threatened to boycott the scheme.
Tessa Jowell, the minister for health, wrote to the consortium that a private-sector solution was preferable because a government-issued card would involve "highly contentious legislation".But are ministers right to think that introducing identity cards is politically impossible?
The main assault on the bill last night came over claims that the government was covertly introducing identity cards by making it a requirement that the British public and foreign residents living in the UK for more than three months apply for an ID card when they seek a new passport with the new biometric data.
A group of MPs has questioned whether the government can meet its April deadline for introducing identity checks on every person leaving the UK.
