ID Cards on the cards again!

Disillusioned kid | 12.02.2002 14:09

Despite his earlier promises ol' Blunkett looks set to introduce a national ID card, because it is what we need REALLY to protect from those terrorists this war was supposed to have put out of business...

UK ID Card Proposals Return Reversing a previous promise not to introduce a national ID card, Home Secretary David Blunkett announced on Febraury 5 that it was going to issue a consultation paper on an "entitlement card" in the summer. The card would include fingerprints, digital photo, name, address and an ID number. At least initially, people would not be required to carry to card but the card would be required for employment and all dealings with the government including health services and libraries. The cost is estimated to be upto £1 billion.

Nicked from Privacy International
For more info on ID cards:

http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/idcard/

Disillusioned kid

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For more info and links

12.02.2002 14:49

See posting from the 5th Feb:

Gov proposes ID ('Entitlement') Cards for UK
by Statewatcher 4:47pm Tue Feb 5 '02

http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21852&group=webcast

Has more info and more links to liberty ID card reports and a bunch of comments etc

Statewatcher

The Beast

12.02.2002 20:01

Global ID is the introduction of the human bar-code, the mark without which you can neither buy nor sell. Are you going to submit to being tagged like a commodity, in order to have the right to the essentials for life? Who has the ultimate right over your body? YOU - not some government agency!

B. Ware

the number

12.02.2002 22:00

The bar code as the formula

snoopers

12.02.2002 23:07

In fact the technology is out there to detect your purchases right now if you use your credit/debit card

liberty briefing

13.02.2002 13:18

A really good booklet has been produced by liberty
'ID cards - arguments against' - including contributions from all sorts of dodgy bleeding heart liberals who think ID cards are crap - people such as Steve Norris (ex tory transprt minister) & Mike O'Brian (Ex new Labour Home office minister) & loads of others - really useful arguments for all those
"if you've got nothing to hide" tory bigots

booklet can be downloaded as pdf from

http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/Liberty%20IDcards3.pdf

gnome