17 posts tagged identity register

In today’s Observer, it is revealed that the Government’s own security experts are worried about Labour’s plans to introduce mandatory ID cards. Here are some choice quotes: "In a potentially damaging revelation, which undermines claims that the scheme will enhance national security, the group has concluded that [ID cards] will be prone to corruption...

The Home Office tentacle, the Identity and Passport Service, has published the latest 10 Year Cost guesstimate Report for their increasingly hated Identity Cards and centralised biometric database National Identity Register scheme. Identity Cards Scheme Cost Report May 2008 (.pdf) This is not a fair and accurate summary of the progress of the controversial scheme.

A RUTHLESS rapist found victims by getting a job as a care worker and trawling a council’s database for vulnerable young girls. Simeon Kellman, 43, used computer records to identify teenagers who had just come out of the foster care system. Then he forced his way into their homes and attacked them.

This piece by Ian Angell is the definitive rebuttal of the UK government's position on ID cards. It articulates all of my concerns, but puts it rather better than I could. Try this, for example: Errors won't just happen by accident.

So native Brits will now no longer be compelled into getting ID cards. This government is now so desperate it’s now freely mimicking last-phase Blair in only talking populism. If it’s likely to get short term electoral advantage then it’s going to hit the headlines.

What kind of country is it that records a persons DNA because they forgot to buy a £2.40 rail ticket. This one!! There is absolutely no need for this at all. Lets just hope the European Courts make the British police remove the DNA records of everyone who has been arrested and then cleared.

Still on the Cards Filed under: Political, General News, Civil Liberties — Longrider @ 19:34 pm No, it isn’t a rethink, it isn’t a U turn. This is simply another marketing exercise designed to get us all on the national identity register one way or another.

The BBC are loyally pushing the Government line that the identity card scheme has been rethought and diluted: "The government has set out changes to its planned identity scheme - including allowing people to use passports or driving licences instead of ID cards.

From Thursday's Guardian comes an article that you really should read. It starts "This has got to stop. Britain's snooper state is getting completely out of hand. We are sleepwalking into a surveillance society, and we must wake up.

In a few months from now, passengers travelling on the ferry between Shetland, Orkney and Aberdeen will have to produce photo ID before embarking - as part of anti-terrorist security measures. Islanders are justifiably concerned, and the local MP is quoted as saying, “I do not find the argument that the boat is a terrorist target a credible one.” Well said, Tavish Scott.