Alexa, do you recall the ID card debate? | Brief letters
Ed Pilkington's reference to a "21st-century Dickensian dystopia" (The worldwide tech revolution digitising welfare systems and punishing the most vulnerable, 15 October) is spot-on. How prescient was Dickens's depiction of the nightmare Circumlocution Office in Little Dorrit. It's hard to believe that common sense is so completely absent among those tasked with running the country and evolving systems, but sadly it's all too clear.
Dr Brigid Purcell
Norwich
" The alarming levels of actual and potential incursions into our privacy detailed in your article (Is it time to turn Alexa off for good?, G2, 9 October) prompted me to remember with something akin to nostalgia the days when there was feverish debate on the merits or otherwise of issuing identity cards in the UK.
Bill White
Leeds