Michael Cross schrieb am 15. Jänner 2004 im Guardian: "Anyone arguing that Britain shouldn't repair its railways because a future regime might transport undesirables to death camps by train would be dismissed as a nutter. Yet apparently intelligent people trot out the same argument against proposals to repair the state's outdated data infrastructure. These self-appointed guardians say we should oppose the proposed national population register because of the use to which a totalitarian government might put it. Likewise identity cards and, with better reason for concern, DNA databases".
Links: Office for National Statistics, Citizen Information Project, dazugehörige "Written Evidence" (Stellungnahmen, z.B. der Association of Chief Police Officers, des Information Commissioner und von Privacy International).