ID cards

Panoptican society - Anarchist Federation

The British State want iris scan, fingerprint, photo, NINO, and the old chestnut “if you're doing nothing wrong you've got nothing to hide” is being aired again. The type of info required they claim is only the basic necessary to prove your identity and to fight crime.

ID Cards

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7 Jun 2007 by daniel

ID Freely

Iain Mackay analyses the likely course of ID cards following this month’s commons vote to impose the £12bn system.

Hopes that Labour MPs would develop a backbone and reject the government’s more insane plans were, unsurprisingly, squashed when they supported ID cards. In spite of previously admitting that ID cards would not have stopped the bombs in July, the spectre of terrorism was used by the government to pass the bill.

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11 Mar 2006 by Freedom

Corporate identity - new scandal over ID cards

The government could be warming up for another big scandal over ID cards, according to a new report, Corporate Identity – a critical analysis of private companies’ engagement with the identity cards scheme.

It looks at which companies are involved, their records, the government’s record in outsourcing IT projects, and what the IT industry thinks of the ID cards scheme.

The report, by Corporate Watch, can be downloaded here:
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/download.php?id=40

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12 Feb 2006 by Steven.
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