Coalition statement promotes civil liberties

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And promises that ID cards, the National Identity Register, the next generation of biometric passports and the Contact Point Database will be scrapped

Government releases document on proposals The coalition government has created a document stating that they will end a series of major IT projects pushed by the last administration. It states...

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