Blunkett’s £40 ID Cards

The Sunday Times reports that David Blun­kett has made up his mind to foist ID cards on the British public.

Well that’s just dandy. Not only will we have to carry a bit of plas­tic con­tain­ing ‘biometric data’ and submit per­sonal infor­ma­tion for stor­age on a cen­tral data­base, we’ll also have to pay for the priv­ilige of having our civil lib­er­ties eroded.

In the leaked letter, Blun­kett iden­ti­fies ‘a highly organ­ised minor­ity who will cam­paign vocally against a scheme’ - Stand, I assume - and claims ‘strong public support’ after the recent con­sul­ta­tion process. Bull­shit. My con­cerns didn’t count, nor did those of five thou­sand others alerted by Stand’s recent cam­paign to raise aware­ness of the consultation.

If you want to read (a lot) more on why ID cards are A Bad Thing, you can view Stand’s sub­mis­sion to the con­sul­ta­tion or check out the Pri­vacy Inter­na­tional FAQ. If you are con­vinced by the argu­ments against the intro­duc­tion of ID cards, please Fax Your MP with­out delay.

Posted at 2pm on 06/07/03 by Jack Mottram to the politics category.
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