Home Office's glitchy eVisa rollout lands UK privacy regulator in campaigners' crosshairs

The UK's privacy watchdog is facing calls for parliamentary scrutiny after campaigners accused it of failing to get a grip on the Home Office's glitch-plagued eVisa system. A coalition of 20 immigration, digital rights, and human rights organizations, including the Open Rights Group, has written to the chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, urging MPs to open an inquiry into what it describes as the Information Commissioner's Office's (ICO) failure to enforce data protection law against the Home Office. The groups want the committee to examine the eVisa program as part of its wider inquiry into government data security. The campaigners argue that the technical problems dogging eVisas go well beyond the odd software...

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