[no2id-supporters] NO2ID Newsletter No.76

Fri Jul 20 09:43:30 BST 2007

    NO2ID Supporters' Newsletter No. 76 - 19th July 2007

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      I SPY AN INTERROGATION CENTRE...

Thanks to the diligent efforts of NO2ID supporters across the UK, we 
have now managed to identify the street addresses of all but nine of the 
69 proposed ID interrogation centres [see 
http://www.no2id.net/getInvolved/idCentres.php].

We still need details for Armagh, Boston, Dumfries, Exeter, Kilmarnock, 
King's Lynn, Omagh, St Austall and Swindon - though the Home Office 
admits it has yet to find suitable premises in at least one of these 
remaining locations. To date only three or four centres appear to be 
open for business - Peterborough, Glasgow, Belfast and one other in the 
North of England. Once open, anyone within a centre's 'catchment area' 
who applies for their first adult passport MAY be called for interview. 
You will be notified by post shortly after submiting your application 
form. Not everyone will be required to attend so - for existing passport 
holders and those near centres yet to open - there is still time to 
*renew* your passport without being subject to the new regime.

We are eager to speak with anyone who has been called in for an official 
grilling, and to gather as much information on the current status of 
each interrogation centre. Please send an e-mail to passports at no2id.net 
if you can provide any of the following:

   1. If you are applying for your first adult passport and receive
      notification that you must attend for interview, or have already
      been interviewed.
   2. An exterior photograph of your nearest interrogation centre -
      check the address on the NO2ID website (link above).
   3. Evidence that a centre is open for business, e.g. reports in your
      local papers, confirmation from staff at the premises.
   4. Details of any of the remaining nine centres.

We anticipate a further ramp-up after the summer, so please keep 
checking even if there are no immediate signs of activity at your 
nearest centre.

      What's next?

        Local groups news

We have local groups all over the country and in 36 of the 69 locations 
of ID interrogation centres (see 
www.no2id.net/getInvolved/idCentres.php). If you can help to set up a 
local group in one of the remaining towns then please contact us at 
(office at no2id.net). A full list of local groups can be found at 
www.no2id.net/localGroups

        Kensington and Chelsea NO2ID mugs

Kensington & Chelsea NO2ID once again have some mugs sporting the NO2ID 
logo. The mugs are available by mail order for just £7 or £4 in person 
with a reduction for bulk purchases i.e. (4 or more) to £3. Contact 
kensington at no2id.net for more details of how to order.

        Manchester NO2ID calls for "Students against ID" volunteers

Manchester NO2ID are still looking for people interested in helping with 
a Students Against ID society in the next academic year. If you're at 
all interested, whether you'd be prepared to shoulder the responsibility 
yourself or just help someone else out, please drop an e-mail to 
manchester at no2id.net

        Still showing - "Taking Liberties" documentary film featuring
        NO2ID at cinemas around the country

The documentary which features NO2ID is still showing at cinemas across 
the UK. The film is described as "a shocking but hilarious polemic 
documentary that charts the destruction of all your Basic Liberties 
under 10 Years of New Labour". More info at 
http://www.noliberties.com/cinema.htm

        Saturdays 1pm - 3pm - NO2ID Edinburgh street stall

Every week, weather permitting, you will find our campaigning stall at 
the east end of Princes Street, opposite the Balmoral Hotel.  Do drop by 
for a chat.  New volunteers - please contact John(edinburgh at no2id.net), 
and for more group information see http://www.no2id-scotland.net/edinburgh/

        Most Saturdays 2pm - NO2ID Glasgow Street Stall

Most Saturdays there are stalls in Glasgow city centre (usually Buchanan 
Street) from about 2pm. Volunteers are always welcome, please contact 
Geraint if you would like to help: glasgow at no2id.net.

        22nd July - NO2ID "V for Vendetta" Film Night, Manchester

Sunday, 22nd July 7pm-10pm: Manchester NO2ID will be sponsoring a 
special movie night of dystopian thriller V for Vendetta at the FAB café 
on Portland Street. Come along for some relaxation and entertainment.

        23rd & 24th July Leicester NO2ID Leafleting at 'Taking Liberties'

Monday, 23rd July 8.45pm and Tuesday, 24th July 6.05pm at the Phoenix 
Theatre - Leicester NO2ID will be handing out leaflets and, hopefully, 
getting signatures on our petition before the showing of 'Taking 
Liberties'. We'll also also be holding a meeting after the show on 
Tuesday 24th July.

        24th July - Leicester NO2ID meeting (normally last Thursday of
        every month)

Tuesday, 24th July in the Phoenix Theatre's bar after their showing of 
"Taking Liberties". After July Leicester NO2ID will be holding meetings 
on the last Thursday of every month at 7.35pm at The Blues pub on Severn 
Road in Oadby.

        24th July - Glasgow NO2ID Meeting

Tuesday 24th July, usual place, usual time: 8pm at Mono (Map: 
http://www.glasgow-no2id.org.uk/meeting.html) our fortnightly meeting, 
all welcome!

        26th July - Glasgow NO2ID, music at Barfly

Thursday, 26th July: "NO2ID presents ...", music at Barfly, 260 Clyde 
Street, Glasgow. Doors open at 8pm, Age 18+ only. Advance tickets 5 
pounds / 6 quid on the door. Rock your socks off to the metal 
downstairs: Mama Mayhem + Serpico + Marshan + Stones Throw, or chill and 
relax upstairs to the acoustic sounds of: Phil Rasmussen, Warped 
Memories, Traquair with MC: Freestyle Master. For more details see See 
www.barflyclub.com/glasgow/whatson/event/11431.aspx

        27th July - Manchester NO2ID flyering 'Taking Liberties' Premiere

Friday, 27th July we will be flyering and taking petition signatures at 
the Cornerhouse Cinema, Oxford Road at the Manchester premiere of the 
new documentary film 'Taking Liberties'. We will aim to flyer the 6:15pm 
showing, and both flyer and attend the 8:30pm showing.

        2nd August - Manchester NO2ID Taking Liberties Introduced Screening

Thursday, 2nd August Dave Page from Manchester NO2ID will be introducing 
the documentary Taking Liberties at the Cornerhouse Cinema and holding a 
Q&A session in the upstairs bar afterwards.

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      What just happened?

        Government legislative programme is a blueprint for data sharing

Last week Gordon Brown revealed the government's Draft Legislative 
Programme for the next session of Parliament.  The plans laid out in a 
document entitled 'The Governance of Britain' are peppered with 
proposals for increased data sharing. Under details of the forthcoming 
Counter Terrorism bill the document states: "It will help the 
investigation of terrorism by ensuring the police and intelligence and 
security agencies have access to all the information they need by 
providing data sharing powers and making full use of DNA". Under the 
Education and Skills bill it states: "Subject to policy clearance, 
provisions to enable data sharing, particularly with HM Revenue and 
Customs and Department for Work and Pensions, to help report on whether 
the system as a whole is delivering economically valuable skills". And 
under the outline of elements of the Sale of Student Loans bill it 
states: "to take data sharing powers so that information on the loans 
held by HM Revenue & Customs can be disclosed to the purchaser."  An 
open admission of the government's intention to abolish privacy.
The document can be found at 
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/publications/reports/governance/governance.pdf

        Government respond to child fingerprinting petition

This week the government published its response to an e-petition against 
fingerprinting without parental consent. The petition which was on the 
Number 10 website attracted 670 signatures. In its response the 
government claims that biometric systems used for school libraries, 
lunches and registration "help make school management systems run more 
smoothly" because of "their advantages over other systems such as smart 
cards". They don't however explain what's wrong with a library card, 
dinner money and a register.
Read the response at http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page12460.asp

        Signatures galore for Southwark NO2ID

Over the last two weeks Southwark NO2ID have been busily collecting 
signatures for the NO2ID petition. On 7th July at Southwark Park's Tour 
De France event they collected 165 signatures. Local Liberal Democrat MP 
Simon Hughes even put in an appearance and was photographed behind the 
stall! Then on the 15th July the group battled the inclement weather and 
collected 250 signatures at the Rise event at Finsbury Park. The group 
would like to thank everyone that mucked in at both events and helped 
them achieve their total - special mention at the Tour De France event 
to Richard for erecting the Gazebo, Anita from Camden and Margot (who 
came at 8.30 and worked in the dark and must have collected 50 
signatures all on her own!)

        'Tagged, Tracked, Taxed'

One of NO2ID's affiliates, the Association of British Drivers(ABD), has 
launched a prominent poster campaign against congestion charging in 
Manchester. The posters highlight the surveillance and database state 
issues surrounding road charging schemes that have been particularly 
highlighted this week with the Home Office's admission that the Police 
will have access to vehicle tracking data(see 'ID in the News' section 
below). ABD recently worked with NO2ID to put the arguments against ID 
cards to readers of motoring publications, and therefore maximise our 
reach. The ABD have set up a campaign website at 
www.manchestertolltax.com. Their 'Tagged, Tracked, Taxed' posters have 
also received coverage in the Manchester Evening News.

        Essay looks at the ubiquitous retort "Nothing to hide, nothing
        to fear"

Professor Daniel J. Solove, an associate professor of law at the George 
Washington University Law School, has published an essay entitled '"I've 
Got Nothing to Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy'. Solove 
deconstructs the well worn phrase and points out that "the problem with 
the nothing to hide argument is with its underlying assumption that 
privacy is about hiding bad things. Agreeing with this assumption 
concedes far too much ground and leads to an unproductive discussion of 
information people would likely want or not want to hide".
The essay can be downloaded at http://tinyurl.com/35g96j

        A question of identity

Whitehall & Westminster World carries an extended interview with James 
Hall, chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service, in which he 
talks about the ID card scheme.
http://www.no2id.net/news/newsblog/?p=643

        Privacy core to ID success, ICO warns

Government needs to make privacy and data protection principles a core 
component of its IT specifications, according to the assistant 
information commissioner.
http://www.no2id.net/news/newsblog/?p=642
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      "ID" in the news

        Britain and Ireland call for EU data sharing - ZDNet 18/7/07

Prime minister Gordon Brown met his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern on 16 
July - they agreed to share data taken from biometric visas and said 
they would urge all 27 EU states to follow suit.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39288092,00.htm

        'Big Brother' plan for police to use new road cameras - The
        Guardian 18/7/07

"Big Brother" plans to automatically hand the police details of the 
daily journeys of millions of motorists tracked by road pricing cameras 
across the country were inadvertently disclosed by the Home Office last 
night.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2128878,00.html

        Brown urges EU-wide cooperation - The Guardian 16/7/07

Neither the UK nor Ireland are members of the EU's Schengen 
border-controls agreement. They are due to be excluded from 
information-sharing on biometric visas when they come into force within 
the EU in 2009. "Both of us accept that there must be greater 
cooperation," Mr Brown said: "the sharing of information about biometric 
visas with those countries that are part of the Schengen agreement, the 
sharing of information about alerts about people who are suspected of 
terrorist activities."
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2127509,00.html

        EU: European Commission to propose EU PNR travel surveillance
        system - Statewatch 15/7/07

Before considering yet another level of travel surveillance it is 
important to re-cap on what is already in place or is planned in the EU. 
First, there is VIS (Visa Information System). Second, the planned SIS 
II. Third, there is the EU API system. The link made by Mr Frattini 
between the attempted attacks in London and Glasgow and the need to copy 
the US PNR system is not at all clear.
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/jul/03eu-pnr.htm

        Government outlines ID-card security measures - Computer Weekly
        13/7/07

The government outlined measures it will take to ensure the privacy of 
ID-card holders at a Westminster eForum seminar on Thursday. Stephen 
Harrison, director of policy, identity and the passport service, said 
biographical and biometric data would be stored on two separate IT 
systems to ensure maximum security.
http://tinyurl.com/3yyz6t

        Heathrow to introduce fingerprint checks - The Times 12/7/07

BA domestic passengers are to become the first in Britain to have their 
fingerprint taken as a matter of routine
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/article2066498.ece

        Road with 100 cameras is plagued by crime - The Telegraph 12/7/07

A crime-ridden high street in north London has been branded the most 
spied-upon road in Britain, after it emerged that it is watched over by 
more than 100 closed circuit television cameras.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/11/ncctv111.xml

        ID card scrutiny under threat - ZDNet 12/7/07

Parliamentary scrutiny of ID cards and other technological and 
scientific issues could be seriously undermined by the new 
administration's reorganisation of governmental departments, according 
to members of a crucial committee.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39287999,00.htm

        Granger says he is 'ashamed' of some systems provided - e-Health
        Insider 10/7/07

The departing head of the NHS IT programme Richard Granger has said he 
is ashamed of the quality of some of the systems put into the NHS by 
Connecting for Health suppliers, singling Cerner out for criticism.
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=2854

        DH denies report that NPfIT is to be shelved - e-Health Insider
        9/7/07

Suggestions in a weekend newspaper that the NHS is to shelve the 
National Programme for IT (NPfIT) have been strongly denied by the 
Department of Health (DH) today. According to the News of the World, NHS 
chiefs have agreed to shelve the programme after admitting it was an 
expensive failure.
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=2851

(Please send me any items of interest you encounter - 
Editor(newsletter at no2id.net) )
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