UK Home Office concealed ID Card scheme report - Rights groups .

The National Office hid the dreadful state of affairs regarding the ID card scheme by keeping back a reputation for a year. The findings have been described by rights groups as "disgraceful."The final report by the Main Scheme Advisory Panel (ISAP) was quietly released on the 4 January, more than a twelvemonth later it was written and afterwards it had been modified.

It identified inadequate data security precautions and threats posed by the systems' complexity.Questions about what the authorities hoped to profit from the system also cropped up. According to NO2ID the delayed report isn't anything new. It pointed out that in the past it had also failed to get any responses to any FOI requests. Michael Parker, told TechEye: It is no surprise to see that internal reports damning the Identity Card scheme are being unearthed only after a variety of government. Each year brought new home and independent reviews describing the scheme's massive flaws. Yet ministers and Home Office bureaucrats soldiered on regardless, moving heaven and ground to bury reports, fight freedom of information requests and observe the truth from the public."The Identity Card Scheme was a disaster waiting to happen. It is dead, but we must be certain the bureaucratic impulse to build dossiers on the world and watch over them dies with it."Alex Deane director at Big Brother Watch also divided the same view. "The curtailment of this story is absolutely disgraceful. It follows a figure of recent behaviour from government agencies, who withhold information harmful to their reputation despite the clear obligation on them to be candid with public data - after all, we pay for their activities and for these reports, and such reports are some aspects of the way we all alive and leave be governed in the future," he told TechEye. "This not only reveals a dishonest approach to information - it also reveals typical administrative incompetence with large, intrusive databases. Government departments constantly want more power over us, but are always too clumsy to use it."And the ID Scheme is so despised that evening the Home Office has decided to get a rant about it. A spokesman for the office told us: "The Identity Card Scheme represented the whip of government. It was intrusive, bullying, ineffective and expensive."That is why the inaugural Home Office Account of this Coalition Government, which received Royal Assent on Tuesday, scrapped ID cards and the National Identity Register."The Government is attached to scaling back the office of the country and restoring civil liberties. This is simply the beginning tone in the work of restoring and maintaining our freedoms."When the system was shut down in May, it apparently left 6.5 billion worth of pre-purchased IT hardware sitting in boxes which will likely never see the fall of day.