Karen Challinor

UK

Company Director

More popular because everyone thinks it's about carrying a card and there's no problem with just carrying a card is there ?

I've had a parliamentary briefing sent to me by my MP, it talks about a central register holding key information and details some of the benefits to be derived and looks very bland and non threatening, and moves swiftly on to methods of payment.

And I'd support it if this were all there was to it, if this is what the politicians are working with then no wonder they in favour of the scheme.

But it isn't all there is, the LSE analysis, the lawyers that showed it breached the human rights act, the level of secrecy, the indecent haste with which the bill is being rushed through, the lack of debate of the issues all demonstrate that there is more to this than is being revealed.

Lets have a proper debate in the house, in public. Lets thrash out the issues of civil liberties, the levels of acceptable false positives and negatives and what happens to the wrongly identified, what actual information will be stored and how the individual can verify and correct it.

Let's not have secrets about something that will monitor and control our lives.

Lets not just rubber stamp this bill, because it's too late to fix it once it becomes law.