Archive for February, 2005

Greens vow to reject ID card plan

Posted at Thursday, February 24th, 2005 by WP Admin

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.

Keeping it accurate…

Posted at Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005 by guy

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 [...]

Greasy palms waiting to milk taxpayer cash cow

Posted at Sunday, February 20th, 2005 by WP Admin

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 [...]

Don’t you support government policy, you misfit?

Posted at Sunday, February 20th, 2005 by guy

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 [...]

Dizzee Rascal gets our point

Posted at Sunday, February 20th, 2005 by guy

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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