The Scottish Green Party is set to vote against identity cards in the Scottish Parliament, as well as symbolically tear up mock cards, according to this BBC report.
In a letter to London’s Evening Standard Mr John O’Brien of Woldingham recounts:
Last month I sent £2 to each of Experian and its rivals Equifax and Creditcall. I asked them to provide me with personal data held on file about me.
Two of them got my electoral registration details wrong. One of them had [...]
In their February/March newsletter, Corporate Watch reproduce Defy-IDs “Greasy Palms” list of “companies either involved or actively seeking involvement in the UK identity scheme.”
Corporate Watch highlight the financial ties between the Whitehall and Industry Group (who are recruiting an identity cards team before it has been scrutinised in full by parliament) and companies on the [...]
Private Eye’s news section [not in the web edition] carries a fascinating story about how public money has been used well before any legislation to investigate [to quote the research brief, apparently] “motivations and barriers to accepatance of identity/entitlement cards, and ideas about how the can most effectively be presented to the public in any [...]
The FT Magazine has an interesting piece on the sociology of British rap, and how it represents thriving hidden cultures outside formal social controls.
The piece is hung on a quote from Dizzee Rascal:
Queen Elizabeth don’t know me, so
How can she control me?
When I live street and she lives neat?
I suspect the Home Office would prefer [...]
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