
By Andy McCue
Published: Monday 16 May 2005
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The writing is on the wall in the UK... Compulsory national identity cards, 3 million CCTVs, 4,000 police road cameras, facial recognition and numberplate spyware, internet surveillance and logging, compulsory fingerprinting, DNA profiling of the newborn, satellite tracking of people and vehicles, RFID tags on people, inland revenue lie detectors, your private health records turned over to the new UK government database, the new children's database, the end of secret ballots (now digitally numbered and archived), abolition of some jury trials, the planned suspension of parliament and the constitution (civil contingencies act), government attacks on the independence of the judiciary, locking people up for years without trial or charge, sabotaging human rights, ending the presumption of innocence, inserting the State into every human relationship and activity. This is not Nanny State, dear people, something very much blacker is on the way..... And to people who say, 'I don't mind having an ID card', are you prepared to force my aged parents (85 and 87) to attend a police station to be fingerprinted, photographed, and god knows what else, on pain of criminal prosecution or denial of health services? And what will happen when you lose your wretched ID card, or have it stolen, or cloned, or confiscated by the police (as they do passports)? "Come with us, your papers are not in order...." Sounds familiar?
Expensive, dangerous white elephant:
This proje...
Richard
I don't have any particular problem with an ID car...
Julian Nicholls
forget the cost and consent for now...how will the...
Richard Davies
The writing is on the wall in the UK... Compulsory...
Anonymous
Apart from the well known arguments as to why the ...
Roger Huffadine
The card is not a problem, apart from the cost and...
Karen Challinor
Polititons and governments have proved over the ye...
Trev
The card itself contains very little data
What ...
Karen Challinor
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