Our pledge to scrap the National Identity Register and ID cards is one step closer to fulfilment. The Immigration Minister, Damian Green, gave a statement to the House yesterday confirming the process. This is encouraging news for those of us who value freedom: we now won’t have to go to prison over it. […]
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Britain now the most invasive surveillance state
Via Right to privacy broken by a quarter of UK’s public databases, says report | The Guardian, we learn that “Britain is now the most invasive surveillance state and the worst at protecting privacy of any western democracy”: A quarter of all the largest public-sector database projects, including the ID […]
Read MorePublic faith in ID cards slumps
An article illustrating the value of patience (but how difficult it is to be patient in the face of such a scheme): The public’s faith in ID cards has slumped in the wake of a series of data loss scandals by the Government. Those in favour of the card now […]
Read MoreBrown: UK ID Cards will not be compulsory … oh yes they will
… for British citizens. Well, it’s a start. Now how to deal with all their other faulty proposals, plans, policies, treaties and laws? read more | digg story Follow up from No2ID. Oh dear, oh dear: you may not have to have a card, but…
Read MoreJeremy Clarkson’s ‘steal my ID’ stunt backfires
TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been forced to reverse his position after he lost money after publishing his bank account details in a newspaper column. The Top Gear presenter rather rashly published his account details in a column in The Sun to back up his claims that the child benefit […]
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