Now this is what we were hoping for
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Scrapping ID cards is a momentous step | Damian Green | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.
This is a beginning, at long last. Wouldn't it be interesting if someone Wikileaked the names of the people who signed up voluntarily to Labour's ID card scheme? After all, it would be a handy list of some of the very worst people in Britain. What a valuable resource to have the self-selected names of the 12,000 fellow-citizens most likely to serve as state stooges, stool pigeons and snitches.
Free men and women could sleep easier in their beds if such data was public. And it might even help the people listed, by showing them how foolish they were to entrust any of their data to the state.
Actually, the 12000 should be required to pay for the cost of the destruction of their personal information, pour descourager les autres
Posted by: Martin Keegan | Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 12:20 AM
I think I could have guessed that name!
Posted by: Tom | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 02:33 PM
Agreed. It's only a beginning. Let's hope more follows fast.
Posted by: Tom | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 02:32 PM
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Posted by: Alex | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 12:34 PM
...but all the databases that were going to be integrated with the ID card system are still in place.
Many of them have their own info feeds and arent going anywhere. Cross linking them (which is underway) gives the State nearly as much as the awful NID would have done, after all they still have all our passport info online so biometric info is there as well.
This makes good headlines but doesn't exactly change a lot.
Posted by: JohnRS | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 12:27 PM