Tag archive for ‘idcards’
Wacky Jacquie resigns: plus ça change at the Home Office?
Jacquie Smith is to step down as Secretary of State for the Home Department in the cabinet reshuffle that Gordon Brown is planning to make after the European elections on Thursday. While the door to the Home Secretary’s office has revolved ever more rapidly since 2001 the authoritarian brief of its occupants has hardly wavered. [...]
The Government doesn’t care about ID cards
There were a bunch of news stories last week ridiculing the Government’s ID card strategy by revealing that, though 50,000 cards will have been issued by April, no official (or unofficial) organisation is yet capable of reading them. No card readers have been issued and the back-end systems aren’t ready yet either. Ministers say they’ve [...]
ID Cards: Home Office launches doomed youth propaganda site
For your amusement, I present an opportunity to observe epic failure in action, live on the Internet: Welcome to mylifemyid – the site where 16-25′s can have their say about identity issues in the UK. A few simple things to remember: We want to know what you think, so contribute contribute contribute. Don’t be shy. [...]
Renew your passport – resist compulsory ID card registration
The Government is using passports to coerce you into surrendering control of your identity. Under the guise of improving passport security, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) will begin forcing all new applicants to register with the ID cards database from April this year. This morning, IPS Chief executive James Hall was in full spin [...]
ID Cards will “help safeguard civil liberties” says IPS chief
Today I took part in a live webchat with James Hall, chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service, hosted by the 10 Downing Street website. Among the many issues that were discussed, it was suggested that ID cards will bring us a step closer to a surveillance society. This was Mr. Hall’s response: “…it [...]