12/05/2010

A welcome site...

...and one Government department definitely needs a name-change (click to enlarge).

ID cards cancelled

As our friends at Privacy International have noted, it will be very interesting to see the 'how'.

By Dylan Sharpe

12 May 2010 13:32:24 | ID cards

1 Comment

Redacted

It's in their own interest in the long run. Remember how GDR people felt about the Stasi when the wall came down.

I shall be waiting with 'bated breath.

Only thing is that I realise there are a lot of people who didn't like this but only because of factors like; cost, lack of benefit to the holder, the fact it was being introduced by a lefty government, etc.. So I will not be surprised to see it resurface in some form or another some day. Hopefully the memory of this disgraceful waste of money, and the clearly paranoid motivations of this scheme, will remain in the public mind for some time and give the next generation of resentful puritans pause when they contemplate another try.

So I still belong to myself, sort of. That was a close shave though. I shall fly a flag when they cancel it, stuff planning permission.

Posted by: Redacted | 12/05/2010 at 10:20 PM

The comments to this entry are closed.

NEXT POST
Personal cellphone data for sale at a Mexico flea market When we write about the dangers of personal data being accumulated on a massive scale, like the NHS summary or Google's wi-fi monitoring, one always runs up against a familiar response of the "it's all for our own good" sort. What's the harm? they say. You're paranoid, they comment. Well, it's this sort of thing, over at the LA Times: When the government launched a nationwide campaign to register cellphones, millions of Mexicans refused. And thousands of others registered with a familiar name: Felipe Calderon, the country's president. The idea was that the registry would combat rampant telephone extortion rackets...
PREVIOUS POST
No More Than a Good Start on Civil Liberties The new Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government has outlined a programme of measures intended to reverse "the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour Government and roll back state intrusion" - read the full list by clicking here. For the past 12 years, Britain has had a Government with little regard for privacy or liberty that has left a legacy of overbearing regulation which intrudes into all our lives. This document shows that the new coalition government is ready to move in the right direction and repeal the most oppressive and unnecessary laws, beginning with the National Identity Register, ContactPoint...

Big Brother Watch

Search

Recent Comments