Ideal Government discusses the accusations leveled at the ID cards scheme that the Home Office will discount out of hand.
It is mostly a list of genuine and valid concerns. As we already know the Home Office is not really interested in discussing ID cards – they just want to force them on us.
Let’s hope [...]
Also from the Standing Committee debate. The Minister encapsulates the Bill. Alastair Carmichael MP had pointed out that fixing names in the register is difficult when names are so variable, his own being Alexander on his birth certificate:
Regarding the legal issues raised by the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland—something-or-other Carmichael, but that [...]
The neatest characterisation of the lackadaisical approach being promoted by the Government, in its attempt to draw the powers conferred by the Idntity Card Bill as widely as possible, comes from Edmund Garnier in the Standing Committee debate:
The Bill is designed to print across our foreheads a human barcode. Those who do not wish to [...]
This story, reported by Xinhua News Agency in China, provides a glimpse of our future should we fail to prevent a national ID card database in the UK:
Twenty-four Chinese stars’ ID Card photos were posted online recently, including those of director and actress Xu Jinglei, singer Tian Zhen, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Zhang [...]
Perhaps finding its addiction to dodgy IT schemes difficult to maintain the UK government has turned pusher and is touting centralised identity schemes to the whole EU, according to an article in The Register. In what may ultimately become a stunning piece of double policy laundering, the UK is couching this as within the [...]
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