NO2ID: Government to use "coercion" against us.

NO2ID have spotted the following in a document entitled "NIS Delivery Strategy -Aligning strategy and delivery", part of a Powerpoint presentation prepared some time in late 2007. You can download the document here but the key paragraph is this:

NO2ID write:

UK campaigners NO2ID this morning enlisted the help of bloggers across the world to spread a leaked government document describing how the British government intends to go about "coercing" its citizens onto a National Identity Register. The 'ID card' is revealed as little more than a cover to create a official dossier and trackable ID for every UK resident - creating what NO2ID calls 'the database state'.

NO2ID's national coordinator, Phil Booth, exhorted bloggers, freedom lovers and anyone who gives a damn about personal privacy to mirror the annotate document on their site.

"The charade is over. While ministers try to bamboozle the British public with fairytales about fingerprints, officials are plotting how to dupe and bully the population into surrendering control of their own identities."

"Biometric ID cards are a sham; a magician's flourish to cover the biggest identity fraud there has ever been."   

Comments

[Sue S]

This has already started to some extent. Try opening a bank account, as both my student son and I have recently, and see how far you get without a passport or a driving license. My son has neither, and is having to either apply for a provisional license or an up-to-date tax form from HM-whatever. I'm fortunate that I have a driving licence, though no doubt they won't like the fact that it's an old paper, pre-photo, version. Life would be so much easier if we both had ID Cards!

I'll put this up on S,G & M , when I've extricated myself from the maelstrom of Climate Change debate. Thanks for bringing it to our attention G1.

[Vicky]

A lot of young people can be persuaded to get these pseudo ID cards to enable them to get served with alcohol. See http://www.citizencard.com/