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Britons' ID cards 'to be delayed'
BBC
Wednesday January 23, 2008
Plans for a wider roll-out of identity cards to British nationals appear to have been delayed for two years.
Foreign nationals will have ID cards this year and it was intended to introduce them in "significant volumes" for UK citizens from 2010.
But documents leaked to the Tories suggest it has been put back to 2012.
The Tories say the ID card scheme is "in the intensive care ward" but the government said the plan had always been to introduce them "incrementally".
The timetable for ID cards to start being given to UK citizens over 16 has already slipped and the first ones are not expected to start being issued until next year.
From January 2010 everyone getting a passport will have to get an identity card as well, according to existing plans.
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Biometric cards
When he was prime minister, Tony Blair said that legislation to make it compulsory for all Britons to get an ID card - not just those getting a passport - would form a "major plank" of Labour's next election manifesto.
But the scheme has met fierce criticism from the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats on cost, effectiveness and civil liberties grounds.
They have also come under fire from experts, including Professor John Salt, of University College, London, who has advised the government on migration trends.
Asked by a House of Lords Committee on Tuesday if ID cards would help curb illegal immigration, Professor Salt said: "No, if they are capable of being forged - and that is probably likely to happen."
FULL ARTICLE HERE:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7203740.stm
UK government has been acting like a fascist/Nazi state for some time now as has USA with new laws and war on terror. As was the standard during the Nazi era in pursuit of world government. Will we soon see China and Russia with more freedom than us...Escape the EU for a chance to gain some freedom...or fight.
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NO2ID Supporters' Newsletter No. 90 - 31st January 2008
Contacting us: Call or email the office - 020-7793-4005 or (office@no2id.net). Please do not reply to this email. (The from address is not a working email address)
MAKING PROGRESS
The Identity & Passport Service is having a bad month.
While their political masters cling desperately to the "magic bullet" of biometrics, claiming everything's proceeding to plan, the officials who actually drive the ID scheme have just had their entire strategy leaked. And two of the eight 'lead suppliers' shortlisted to build the scheme just dropped out.
The scheme's not dead, but the panic's beginning to show.
We annotated a copy of the strategy document and made sure you (and the whole world) could read it, amongst other places at:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/National_Identity_Scheme_Options_Analysis_Outcome
A lot of the work that NO2ID does, you don't see. It's only at times like these that you may get a sense of how much briefing and lobbying, research, analysis and intelligence gathering we do. Week in, week out - we can't afford to slack off. Whether the papers are writing about NO2ID and ID cards or not, we have to be ready to make use of every opportunity. And working to create opportunities of our own.
We hope that you will already have seen some of the other things we do - the leaflets, pamphlets, badges, banners and other materials that we produce and distribute; information on the website and forums; coverage generated by interviews and press releases. Supporting our network of ID heroes and heroines, running local groups the length and breadth of the UK.
You can help. Please join the campaign by setting up a regular payment here:
http://www.no2id.net/getInvolved/join.php
You can use PayPal (which now takes credit cards), set up a standing order or use our bank details to sort out an arrangement with your own bank. Every penny you give will be spent fighting ID cards and the database state.
We're making progress. With your help, we WILL win
What's next?
Local groups news
We have local groups all over the country and in 36 of the 69 locations of ID interrogation centres (see www.no2id.net/getInvolved/idCentres.php). If you can help to set up a local group in one of the remaining towns then please contact us at (office@no2id.net). A full list of local groups can be found at www.no2id.net/localGroups
Kula Shaker promotes NO2ID on tour
UK rock band Kula Shaker have been promoting NO2ID on their current tour (see http://www.kulashaker.co.uk) and we have stalls manned by volunteers at most of the following gigs: 04/02/08 - Exeter, Lemon Grove, 05/02/08 - Bristol, Anson Rooms, 06/02/08 - Waterfront, Norwich, 08/02/08 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London, 09/02/08 - Carling Academy 2, Birmingham. If you would like to help out on one of the stalls, then contact Matty Mitford, local.groups@no2id.net or the relevant NO2ID local group.
Data sharing consultation - (closes 15th February)
A consultation on data sharing has been launched by the Ministry of Justice. The consultation document is at (www.justice.gov.uk/publications/data-sharing-review-consultation.htm). Please also send NO2ID details (with evidence) of occasions where public authorities or others are demanding more information than necessary for the purpose. Our address is NO2ID, Box 412, 19-21 Crawford Street, London W1H 1PJ or send by e-mail to (office@no2id.net). There is a discussion of how to go about submitting evidence for the consultation at http://forum.no2id.net/viewtopic.php?t=20073
Brighton & Hove
1st February Brighton & Hove NO2ID Benefit gig
Friday, 1st February 8pm-12am at The East Slope Bar, Refectory Road, Sussex University. Live music to dance to from Rum Boogie, and 24Sweed'n, the acoustic ukulele genius.
Cambridge
6th February - Cambridge NO2ID pub meeting (1st Wednesday of each month)
Wednesday, 6th February 7.30pm at the Salisbury Arms, 76 Tenison Rd, Cambridge CB1 2DW. Map: (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=cb1+2dw). For more details contact cambridge@no2id.net, or text/call Andrew on 07710 469624.
16th February - NO2ID Cambridge Stall
Saturday, 16th February at 1a0am in the usual spot outside Cambridge Guildhall at 10am on Saturday 16th February. Location Map: http://tinyurl.com/eo42r. As ever, volunteers to help very welcome - please email cambridge@no2id.net, or text/call Andrew on 07710 469624 if you can make it.
Canterbury
6th February - Canterbury NO2ID Meeting (1st Wednesday of each month)
Wednesday, 6th February 7.30pm at Coffee and Corks, Palace Street, Canterbury. Email canterbury@no2id.net for more info.
Edinburgh
Saturdays 1pm - 3pm - NO2ID Edinburgh street stall
Every week, weather permitting, you will find our campaigning stall at the east end of Princes Street, opposite the Balmoral Hotel. Do drop by for a chat. New volunteers - please contact John(edinburgh@no2id.net), and for more group information see http://www.no2id-scotland.net/edinburgh/
Glasgow
Most Saturdays 2pm - NO2ID Glasgow Street Stall
Most Saturdays there are stalls in Glasgow city centre (usually Buchanan Street) from about 2pm. Volunteers are always welcome, please contact Geraint if you would like to help: glasgow@no2id.net
Kensington & Chelsea
1st February - Kensington & Chelsea NO2ID stall, Portobello Green
Friday, 1st February, Kensington & Chelsea NO2ID will hold a stall at Portobello Green. Please contact Jill at kensington@no2id if you are willing and able to help.
7th February - Meeting 'Liberty vs ID cards'
Thursday, 7th February 7.30pm at the church on the corner of Westbourne Grove and Ledbury Road, Notting Hill, we are having a talk by the famous libertarian , Dr Sean Gabb and NO2ID's own Guy Herbert on 'Liberty v ID cards' and the NO2ID Pledge. If you want more details or wish to help contact Jill as above.
8th February - Kular Shaker stall
Friday, 8th February we plan to assist at the no2id stall during Kular Shaker's event at Shepherd's Bush Empire.
Our NO2ID mugs will be available at each venue £4 each or £3 each for 4 or more and if you come in person there is no need to pay postal charges!
Leicester
31st January - Pledge signing event
Thursday, 31st January from 7pm at the Blues pub in Oadby. Instead of the usual Wednesday meeting we will be signing the NO2ID pledge to refuse to register for the national ID card. Everybody welcome as we'll be including this event in a press release and we would like a good turnout!
Manchester
9th February - Manchester NO2ID street stall
Saturday, 9th February, from 1pm-3pm in St.Ann's Square, Manchester.
13th February - Manchester NO2ID meeting
Wednesday, 13th February from 7pm-9pm at the Town Hall Tavern, Tib Lane, Manchester.
Newcastle/Gateshead
20th February - Taking Liberties showing
Wednesday, 20th February 7.30pm at the Star and Shadow Cinema. The acclaimed film Taking Liberties, featuring NO2ID, will be shown.
Oxford
On Sunday NO2ID Oxford staged a 'Barbeque for the Grilling Centre' to highlight the opening of the UK Identity and Passport Service (UKIPS) interrogation centre in Oxford. The group are concerned that very few Oxfordshire residents are aware of the centre's existence or its purpose. Chairman of the group Chris Rimmer said: "The Identity and Passport Service wants to quietly start grilling everyone in the country. They want all of your personal details and your fingerprints. Could they treat us more like criminals if they tried?".
For more information see NO2ID Oxford's website at http://no2id-oxford.org.uk
Shrewsbury
18th February - Shrewsbury NO2ID meeting
Monday, 18th February 8pm in the Armoury, Victoria Quay, Victoria Avenue Welsh Bridge
Shrewsbury (http://www.brunningandprice.co.uk/pub6_7.html). Look for a table with black-and-red NO2ID flyers scattered around; we'll try to get a table at the fireplace/toilet end of the pub (but look at other tables too if we didn't get seats there).
Southampton
6th February - Southampton NO2ID Meeting (1st Wednesday of each month)
Wednesday, 6th February 8.00pm at the Dolphin pub in St Denys, Southampton. We hold irregular stalls in Southampton and environs. Please contact Southampton.no2id@gmail.com if you would like to take part, or come to the next meeting.
Southwark
8th February - Southwark NO2ID at the SEOne Club
Friday 8th February 9pm at the SEOne Club in Weston Street, underneath London Bridge. The venue opens at 9pm and continues until 8am on Saturday morning. We will be highlighting the NO2ID Pledge as well as the petition.
Worcester
6th February - Worcester NO2ID pub meeting (No meeting in January)
Wednesday, 6th February 2000 at The Portobello, Bransford Road, St John's, Worcester (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=383268&Y=253763&A=Y&Z=1). Our regular, meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month. This month: Roles, Recruitment and the Rest of Worcestershire. Contact Worcester@no2id.net or 01905 735986
Worthing
31st January - Screening of Taking Liberties
Thursday, January 31st 8pm upstairs at The Rest Bar, Bath Place (off Montague Street), Worthing BN13 1AB.
What just happened?
Leaked ID scheme document reveals coercion plan
This week NO2ID enlisted the help of bloggers across the world to spread a leaked government document describing how the government intends to go about "coercing" citizens onto the National Identity Register. The document relates to the previously leaked 'NIS Delivery Strategy - Aligning strategy and delivery' PowerPoint presentation. The 'ID card' is revealed as little more than a cover to create an official dossier and trackable ID for every UK resident - creating the database state. The document contradicts previous government assertions that no British citizen will be forced to have an ID card when it says: "Various forms of coercion, such as designation of the application process for identity documents issued by UK Ministers (e.g. passports), are an option to stimulate applications in a manageable way".
The document, annotated by NO2ID, can be downloaded from http://wikileaks.org/wiki/National_Identity_Scheme_Options_Analysis_Outcome
ID to be required for travel from Shetland to Aberdeen
NorthLink Ferries are to introduce a photo ID requirement for passengers travelling between Shetland and Aberdeen from 1st May. The ferry company claims that the move to introduce the checks is in the interests of anti-terrorist security. Shetland MSP Tavish Scott said: "I do not find the argument that the boat is a terrorist target a credible one". Under the move passengers without photo ID, including small children will not be allowed to travel. NorthLink's ferry service is touted as a "lifeline" service for the residents of Shetland and receives funding from the Scottish Executive, it remains to be seen whether NorthLink's plans to exclude non-ID carrying passengers breaches their contract.
More government IT and database failures
This week it was announced that the National Offender Management Service (Noms) is to be scrapped and with it 'C-Nomis' a £250m project to install a computer database that would track offenders through the prison and probation systems. The database has been scrapped after a series of technical failures. Meanwhile the HM Courts Service case management IT system 'Libra' is apparently back on track - 16 years late and costing nearly three times more than expected. The 'Libra' will apparently speed up the time taken to deal with offenders by supporting standard ways of working in courts.
EU Digital Identity Sector report
A report, 'Overcoming Barriers in the EU Digital Identity Sector', has been released by the institute for prospective technological studies (ipts). Amongst other things the report mentions profiling and data sharing and points out that : "Data protection is taken very seriously in Germany but less so in other areas of Europe and still less in the US, where data mining is increasingly widespread". The report also states that: "Some interesting work is being done [...] by the EU-funded GUIDE project, researching the potential for data sharing across European borders. This will eventually culminate in a 'real-world "proof of concept"'. Ultimately the report admits that "the experts were not able to reach consensus on a list of the most important and/or challenging barriers with a view to prioritising them" and suggests that "in order to draw clear policy conclusions, it soon became obvious that policy making in this field is in need of a more compelling taxonomy or classification that would allow for a more thorough cross-disciplinary analysis".
The report can be downloaded at http://www.jrc.es/publications/pub.cfm?id=1533
"ID" in the news
Big Brother is not in the public interest - The Telegraph 30/1/08
The news that more than 1,000 requests a day are made to "intercept" our phone calls, post and email should come as no surprise to anyone observing Britain's rapid descent into mass surveillance. What may be more of an eye-opener is the extent to which the Government has systematically embedded secrecy, incompetence and spin into the process
http://tinyurl.com/35ck3w
IPS sticks to fingerprint plan - Kable 28/1/08
The Identity and Passport Service has denied that fingerprints could be dropped from the National Identity Register. It has dismissed a report in The Observer, based on a leaked document, that claimed plans to asses the costs for different groups of people point to the plan for a fingerprint register being dropped.
http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/Frontpage/080CC74078DDF50C802573DE004C4B5D?OpenDocument
The great ID card rebellion - The Guardian 24/1/08
In the beginning, it was a grand vision. Compulsory identity cards would be in the forefront of the fight against terrorism, organised crime, illegal immigration and benefit fraud. Now, three home secretaries later, the scheme's defenders talk meekly of a voluntary scheme which will make people's lives that little bit easier. So what's changed?
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,2245836,00.html
Accenture and BAE pull out of ID card project - The Register 24/1/08
Accenture and BAE Systems have both decided not to chase contracts for the controversial scheme. A short list of possible suppliers is due to be published in the next few months but several firms have expressed discontent with continued government indecision.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/01/24/accenture_bae_ditch_id_cards/
Fujitsu may quit NHS National Programme for IT - ComputerWeekly 22/1/08
The board of an NHS trust has learned of a "significant" risk of Fujitsu ending its £900m contract to supply and implement hospital systems across southern England as part of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/01/22/229021/fujitsu-may-quit-nhs-national-programme-for-it.htm
US: Students get IDs as part of new program - KHQA Online 21/1/08
Troopers are photographing and fingerprinting school children as part of a new Highway Patrol safety program. The patrol then creates IDS. Besides the photos and digitally scanned fingerprints, the IDs also include the children's height and weight, address, phone number, parents' names and birth date. Parents keep the IDS just in case anything happens.
http://www.khqa.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=86806
Labour’s bureaucratic, un-necessary ID cards - rnif.com 20/1/08
Speech to the National Assembly for Wales.
“I welcome this debate this afternoon. It is the first opportunity that we have had in the new year not just to discuss the potential impact of any ID scheme on public services and members of the public more widely in Wales, but to examine the impact of the loss of information and data that we experienced at the end of the last calendar year.
http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/labours-bureaucratic-un-necessary-id-cards/2246/
US : Surveillance and Society - ThreatsWatch 19/1/08
The subject of surveillance in a free society is controversial. New Scientist’s Phil McKenna writes in his article, US and UK rival China for government surveillance that part of the problem may be technology advancing faster than government safeguards.
http://threatswatch.org/rapidrecon/2008/01/surveillance-and-society/
'Surveillance Britain' - Schnews 11/1/08
Want to move your curtain twitching habits into the digital age? Think Eastenders is losing it’s appeal for it’s lack of reality? Well Derby Police are asking for nosey parkers willing to keep their beady eyes firmly on the real goings on down Derby way. Yes, Police have now got so many cameras keeping Britain under surveillance at all times that they can no longer keep up with actually watching them all so are having to beg the public to step in and do the job (unpaid, of course) instead. Unsure potential citizen snoopers needn’t worry either – you’ll get twenty hours training on how to watch a computer monitor.
http://www.schnews.co.uk/archive/news615.htm
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Did you see this article FWO? More Police State tactics in UK. If they can't get a card through one way, they just try another.
Every pupil to be numbered and kept on Government database FOR LIFE
By DANIEL BATES - More by this author »
Last updated at 10:04am on 13th February 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=514033&in_page_id=1770
The exam results and personal details of every 14-year-old in England are to be put on an electronic database for the rest of their lives.
Under Government plans to be unveiled today, each pupil will be assigned a unique number which they will keep even after they leave school.
Employers and colleges will be able to use this number to access students' records on the internet to check if they are telling the truth about their qualifications.
It is hoped there will ultimately be a numbered database for every citizen aged over 14 years.
Last night, the Government denied the individual numbers would be linked to ID cards.
But a furious coalition of teachers, parents, opposition MPs and human rights campaigners united to condemn the "Big Brother" policy.
They pointed to the Government's abysmal track record on keeping data safe and warned the personal details of millions could be compromised.
The new database will be made up of Unique Learner Numbers (ULN) which work in the same way as the current Unique Pupil Number (UPN).
The crucial difference, however, is that the UPN is discarded when the individual leaves school. The new ULN will not be and will let Government agencies track them until they retire.
It will be compulsory for every 14-year-old to have one.
Margaret Morrisey, of the National Association of Parent Teacher Associations, said the plans would horrify parents.
She said: "I suspect there will not be more than two parents in the land who would have faith in the Government that this information will be secure."
John Dunford, General Secretary of the Association for School and College Leaders, said: "Given the track record of Government IT disasters and the possibility that all these children's record will end up in Iowa, this is a worry."
The new database will let students build up a record of exam results across their whole school career.
It will be known as the MIAP, or Managing Information Across Partners, and will have two passwords.
Students will have one password to access the records themselves and could give another to employers or colleges to have a restricted view of the records.
When the scheme was first proposed in 2003, education secretary Charles Clarke said the ULN could be cross-referenced with, or the same as, the number on individual ID cards.
Critics say the move is part of a general trend towards the Government computerising records and requiring departments to share information on ordinary citizens with each other.
Information Commissioner Richard Thomas is said to be satisfied with the security for the new database.
But Shadow Schools Secretary Michael Gove said: "The Government has a terrible track record in managing complex IT programmes.
"Recent events have shown that sensitive personal data is not safe in ministers' hands.
"There must be profound worries not just in terms of civil liberties but also in terms of the security of young people with a project like this."
The Government is pressing ahead with the introduction of ULNs whilst awaiting the results of a security review into a separate planned database called ContactPoint, which would contain personal details of all 11million children in England.
The ContactPoint review was ordered last year after HM Revenue and Customs lost two computers discs containing the personal details of 25million people.
A slew of data breaches has since followed including the disappearance of 3million learner driver details from Iowa in the US.
A spokeswoman for MIAP, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Learning and Skills Council, said any plans to link the ULN to ID cards had been shelved.
A spokesman for the Department for Universities, Innovation and Skills said the aim of MIAP was to give students an online "record of achievement" they could show to universities or employers.
He said: "MIAP is supposed to be a simple record of learning which someone can use to apply to a higher education course or into the workplace.
"It is a record unique to them that makes all that information easily accessible.
"The learner will have control over what information is stored and how it will be used."
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No I had not read it until now. Thanks.
No surprise there then. The state will use everything a Totalitarian Regime needs to control all people at all times. This includes fully extensive digital databases of all humans and animals. Anything in our life, collecting this data helps profile people from birth to death. I am sure it will be kept beyond the grave, it will help to determine future thought criminals or any that do not have the corporate elite states interests at heart. Thus eliminating any hard work to keep fighting and targeting people that are proponents of free speech, freedom and peace. I think some call this persecution. Surely it amounts to that even when it is digitalised, and we are under almost 24/7 surveillance.
It is easy to fall prey to the reasons for their actions of what they are doing to us, you would be fooled very easily if you buy into this though.
I hope I have the time I need to find a decent place to re-locate to before it gets worse, wait until they enforce laws they made 10 years ago, not just ones decades ago or the 10 trillion plus in the last few years that strip us of our rights. I am being suffocated already.
It is clear that the Corporate Elite State now own us under their totalitarian laws, that are illegal under our Constitution that is soon to be destroyed forever.
Even people that now know this is here and real are doing little about it as a whole base, meaning few do most whereas all could do a little more to make a vast impact. The ones that ask what the fuss is all about really, need to just get it together or deserve what is coming.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAntiTerrorist
TheAntiTerrorist on Corporate control
TAKE ACTION NOW! UNITE!
TAKE ACTION NOW! UNITE! Just in case any more are wondering about 2012 prophecy - well that is our year, not the time for the elite, and this is why they must works hard in attempt to prevent any changes. Forget all the alien prophesy crap like planetx for now even if it is real, first off just look at what the Mayans actually predicted and we are actually living in the conditions they foretold. They knew changes had to take place for future for us.
Corporate Elite World Governance is merging as one!
Under UN + EU alongside other Unions or Banking Institutes.
- England + Germany - elite masters to the slaves.
TAKE ACTION: SOCIAL NETWORK: FORM (GLOBAL INTERCONNECTED) UNITED FREEDOM FORCE! IT ALL STARTS LOCALISED!
NO2ID Supporters' Newsletter No. 91 - 14th February 2008
Contacting us: Call or email the office - 020-7793-4005 or (office@no2id.net). Please do not reply to this email. (The from address is not a working email address)
SET YOUR VIDEO - NEW BBC DRAMA ON THE DANGERS OF THE DATABASE STATE
This Sunday, 17th February, at 9pm BBC One begins a new five-part thriller based in the database state. 'The Last Enemy', starring Robert Carlyle and Benedict Cumberbatch, is set in the near future where ID cards and government control through centralised databases is a reality.
The series is a great opportunity to open discussion and debate about the future we are hurtling towards. We encourage you to get your friends, family and colleagues to watch it. Talk about it with them. Point out how close the database state really is. As the programme's writer Peter Berry says in this week's Radio Times, "everything that happens in episode one is absolutely conceivable now".
The dystopian vision portrayed in 'The Last Enemy' may be enough to convince people you know that they should do something to stop it.
If you have already made the NO2ID Pledge*, or even if you haven't yet, you should encourage them to make it too. Get them to join NO2ID - http://www.no2id.net/getInvolved/join.php - or get involved in a local group.
This week's media scramble on the Unique Learner Number and lifelong retention of children's records shows that all too often the mainstream wakes up too late. We need to keep campaigning to ensure that 'The Last
Enemy' remains fiction not fact.
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* The NO2ID Pledge - http://www.no2id.net/pledge/ - is an entirely lawful public declaration that you personally will be taking a stand against ID cards and the database state.
What's next?
Local groups news
We now have local groups in 44 of the 69 proposed locations for interrogation centres - of which just 3 have yet to open. Parliamentary answers indicate that the most active centres are: Belfast, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Newport, Peterborough and Sheffield.
As of the end of January 2008, 22 of the centres had performed fewer than 10 interrogations. There may still be time to apply for your first adult passport without being called in for an official grilling - but, if you are, your details still won't be going onto the National Identity Register. It isn't built yet.
For information on your nearest interrogation centre, see www.no2id.net/getInvolved/idCentres.php. If you can help set up a local group in one of the remaining locations, or anywhere else in the UK, please contact Matty on local.groups@no2id.net
Birmingham
25th February - NO2ID Central Birmingham Inaugural meeting
Monday, 25th February 7:30pm at the Midlands Art Centre café, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH. The inaugural meeting of the Central Birmingham group. All are welcome
Cambridge
16th February - NO2ID Cambridge Stall
Saturday, 16th February at 10am in the usual spot outside Cambridge Guildhall. Location Map: http://tinyurl.com/eo42r. As ever, volunteers to help very welcome - please email cambridge@no2id.net, or text/call Andrew on 07710 469624 if you can make it.
5th March - Cambridge NO2ID pub meeting (1st Wednesday of each month)
Wednesday, 5th March 7.30pm at the Salisbury Arms, 76 Tenison Rd, Cambridge CB1 2DW. Map: (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=cb1+2dw). For more details contact cambridge@no2id.net, or text/call Andrew on 07710 469624.
Canterbury
We've been featured on the Your Canterbury website: http://www.yourcanterbury.co.uk/kent-news/Anti-ID-card-group-sets-up-stall-in-city-centre-newsinkent9777.aspx
16th February - Cantebury NO2ID Street Stall
Saturday, 16th February 10am-4pm, Cantebury High Street. Our second High St stall will be manned by a small crew of Jen, James, Tom, Simon, Ian and myself but if any of you are able to turn up and stick around I'm sure these guys would all appreciate a bit more of a break! Hope to see you this weekend!
5th March - Canterbury NO2ID Meeting (1st Wednesday of each month)
Wednesday, 5th March 7pm at Coffee and Corks, Palace Street, Canterbury. Email canterbury@no2id.net for more info.
Dorking
Now an active group - we are planning local media events, a High St stall and we will be approaching the Local Council to get them to pass anti-ID legislation.
4th March - Dorking NO2ID Meeting
Tuesday, 4th March 7.30pm. New permanent venue tba. More local members needed.
Dover
28th February - Dover NO2ID AGM/Meeting
Thursday, 28th February 7.45pm for an 8pm start at The Red Lion Pub, Charlton Green, Dover, Kent. Actually the term "AGM" is a bit formal; there will be some formalities to complete, but it will be mostly a chance for members and supporters to gather and discuss what has happened over the last year, and plan the next year. All members and supporters from Dover, Deal, Folkestone, Hythe and surrounding areas welcome.
Edinburgh
Meeting with Green MSP Patrick Harvie
The first in a series of meetings, in which MSPs of all parties are being invited along as guest speakers, was held on 30th January. In the past, Green MSP Patrick Harvie has been a great champion for NO2ID issues both within the Scottish Parliament and at our demos. On this occasion he was very pleased to take the opportunity to publicly sign the NO2ID Pledge. At the end of his very interesting talk he volunteered to arrange a briefing of MSPs at the Parliament, which would allow NO2ID representatives to explain the long term significance of the controversial Scottish National Entitlement Card.
Saturdays 1pm - 3pm - NO2ID Edinburgh street stall
Every week, weather permitting, you will find our campaigning stall at the east end of Princes Street, opposite the Balmoral Hotel. Do drop by for a chat. New volunteers - please contact John(edinburgh@no2id.net), and for more group information see http://www.no2id-scotland.net/edinburgh/
Glasgow
Most Saturdays 2pm - NO2ID Glasgow Street Stall
Most Saturdays there are stalls in Glasgow city centre (usually Buchanan Street) from about 2pm. Volunteers are always welcome, please contact Geraint if you would like to help: glasgow@no2id.net
Kensington & Chelsea
NO2ID pledge meeting available online
A public meeting about the NO2ID pledge was held on 7th February at 7.30pm at Westbourne Grove Church. The speakers were the Libertarian Dr Sean Gabb and Guy Herbert, General Secretary of NO2ID. The meeting was chaired by George Edwards. A full webcast of the proceedings has been made and can be viewed at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8242866171486169757. Flyers were distributed during the week at Notting Hill Underground station, Queensway and Bayswater Underground stations and in pubs and cafes in the vicinity of the meeting. Members will work on a showing of Taking Liberties as their next event.
Manchester
8th March - Manchester NO2ID Street Stall
Saturday, 8th March 2pm-4pm in St. Anne's Square we'll be running a stall to raise awareness among the public and engage people in discussion about the National Identity Register. We'll meet in the square itself at 2pm to set up shop; feel free to join us to lend a hand or just chat. Please note the new times for this event - we're starting and finishing an hour later than previously!
12th March - Manchester NO2ID Meeting
Wednesday, 12th March 7pm-9pm in the upstairs function room of the Town Hall Tavern, Tib Lane, Manchester. At our monthly meetings we discuss the state of the NO2ID campaign, what we've been up to recently and where we're going in future. Everyone is welcome, newcomer or not, curious or committed.
Newcastle/Gateshead
20th February - Taking Liberties showing
Wednesday, 20th February 7.30pm at the Star and Shadow Cinema. The acclaimed film Taking Liberties, featuring NO2ID, will be shown.
Shrewsbury
18th February - Shrewsbury NO2ID meeting
Monday, 18th February 8pm in the Armoury, Victoria Quay, Victoria Avenue, Welsh Bridge, Shrewsbury (http://www.brunningandprice.co.uk/pub6_7.html). Look for a table with black-and-red NO2ID flyers scattered around; we'll try to get a table at the fireplace/toilet end of the pub (but look at other tables too if we didn't get seats there).
Southwark
Southwark achieved very good results at The SEOne club last Friday and Saturday. The Synergy Project are holding another two events and have invited NO2ID to both. For details of who is appearing at these events, please visit www.thesynergyproject.org The first event will be held on 22nd March at the Synergy Centre, Camberwell. The second event will be on 18th April at The SEOne Club. For both events we would like two more people to assist. If you are free and can help, please contact Judith at southwark@no2id.net. You do not have to be a member of the Southwark Group to volunteer - anyone who knows the subject and wants to talk to the public. NO2ID has also been invited to the following events :
22nd February - Flame & Flesh SE17
Friday, 22nd February 8pm - 2am we will be at Flame & Flesh, Corsica Studios, Units 4/5, Elephant Road, SE17 1LB. Sincere thanks to Lorraine Liyanage who kindly arranged for us to 'get in' to this event. Ideally, I would like one person to assist me on the night, even if you can spend just a few hours. If you want to volunteer, please contact me at southwark@no2id.net. For details of who is appearing, please visit www.experimentl.co.uk.
27th February - Respect event
Wednesday 27th February at Blue Room in the Methodist Church Hall Clubland, Walworth Road. Phil Booth will be speaking. This will be an evening meeting. Exact times and directions still to be supplied. Please contact me if you would like to come along. Another Southwark Group member, Margot Lindsay, kindly arranged this meeting.
If any other Southwark Group members know of meetings where NO2ID can take a table, please contact soutwark@no2id.net
Swindon
27th February - Swindon NO2ID Meeting
Wednesday, 27th February, 7.30pm at The George Inn, Eastcott Hill, Swindon. At the meeting we will be discussing the group's attendance at the full meeting of Swindon Borough Council on 28th February (assemble at Euclid Street Offices 6.30pm) to put a public question to the Council during public question time. Informal gathering of minds. All are very welcome.
What just happened?
New ICM poll shows 1 in 4 strongly against ID cards
A new survey commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust shows that 25% of those polled are deeply opposed to the introduction of a national identity card scheme. This is up from 17% in September last year. The poll also showed 50% of respondents thought ID cards were a bad idea whilst 47% thought they were a good idea. The poll data is at http://www.jrrt.org.uk/ICM%20Omnibus%20poll%20-%203%20February%202008.pdf
Doctors have no confidence in NHS database
A poll conducted by BMA News has found that nine out of ten doctors surveyed have no confidence in the government’s ability to safeguard patient data online. Recent high-profile data losses, such as the HM Revenue and Customs computer discs containing the details of 25 million child benefit claimants and security breaches during last year’s online training recruitment fiasco for junior doctors, have left doctors sceptical about safety. More than eight out of ten (81 per cent) of respondents said they would not want their surgery data stored on the national NHS ‘spine’.
Bridport Town Council vote against ID cards
On 5th Februray Bridport Town Council passed a motion against the government's ID scheme. The council agreed not to take part in any pilot scheme or feasibility work in relation to the introduction ID cards and to only co-operate with the scheme where to do otherwise would be unlawful. The council also voted to support the NO2ID campaign.
EU biometric checks?
The European Commission wants "an entry-exit system to record the dates of entry and exit of each third-country national admitted to the Schengen area using biometric identifiers (facial image and fingerprints)." The measure would apply to those entering the current 25 Schengen member states and associates in Europe. The move will be up for priority discussion by EU justice and home affairs ministers during the first half of 2008, but the Commission rarely puts forward proposals of this kind unless it is reasonably sure that they will be adopted. It remains to be seen how the requirement will affect the five EU members that have stayed outside Schengen - including the UK and Ireland. The EU's justice commissioner Franco Frattini reportedly suggested that they could join the biometric scheme "voluntarily". He also said that EU citizens and other people "worthy of confidence" should be offered the possibility of taking part voluntarily in a "kind of fast identification process". In general, Frattini favours surveillance levels equalling or surpassing those of the USA, both at borders and on EU-internal air travel. All in all, the new Europe-wide surveillance would cost at least £485m.
"ID" in the news
Less than a quarter of us think ID cards will work - Daily Mail 13/2/08
Only 24 per cent of us are convinced that the £5.5billion ID card scheme will achieve its aims, a survey revealed yesterday. The poll, by the Government's own Identity and Passport Service, showed that there is widespread scepticism about the plans.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=513944&in_page_id=1770
Every child in school numbered for life - The Times 13/2/08
All 14-year-old children in England will have their personal details and exam results placed on an electronic database for life under a plan to be announced tomorrow. Under the terms of the scheme all children will keep their individual number throughout their adult lives.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article3359931.ece
How believable are government claims on ID cards? - The Register 13/2/08
British people are maintaining steady levels of disbelief over government claims about ID cards, according to official Home Office research. The survey asked people how important proposed benefits of the ID card would be - 74 per cent chose "disrupting the activities of terrorists and organised criminals", but 23 per cent of people thought this was "slightly believable" and 11 per cent thought it was "not at all believable".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/id_card_research_unbelievable/
NHS has lost thousands of smartcards - IT Pro 6/2/08
Connecting for Health has admitted that some four thousand smartcards used to access NHS computer systems have gone missing. Over four thousand smartcards used to access NHS computer systems have gone missing, according to reports in a medical publication.
http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/163317/nhs-has-lost-thousands-of-smartcards.html
UK has lessons to learn from Hong Kong on ID cards - Computer Weekly 6/2/08
Whether citizens like it or not, their governments are anxious to know everything about them. There are plenty of technologies they can harness to this purpose. But the trick is to find a politically and culturally acceptable way to apply them.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/02/06/229296/uk-has-lessons-to-learn-from-hong-kong-on-id-cards.htm
Britain is slithering down the road towards a police state - The Guardian 6/2/08
The machine is out of control. Personal surveillance in Britain is so extensive that no democratic oversight is remotely plausible. Some 800 organisations, including the police, the revenue, local and central government, demanded (and almost always got) 253,000 intrusions on citizen privacy in the last recorded year, 2006. This is way beyond that of any other country in the free world.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/06/immigrationpolicy.politics
Our state collects more data than the Stasi ever did. We need to fight back - The Guardian 31/1/08
This has got to stop. Britain's snooper state is getting completely out of hand. We are sleepwalking into a surveillance society, and we must wake up. When the Stasi started spying on me, as I moved around East Germany 30 years ago, I travelled on the assumption that I was coming from one of the freest countries in the world to one of the least free. I don't think I was wrong then, but I would certainly be wrong now.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jan/31/immigrationpolicy.politics
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As the databases state goes over 175,000 corporations have you on file as well as the government even if you are not on the electoral roll. We know credit card companies and bank employees at the senior levels even CEO's are effected by identity theft. Security standards online is not good when it comes to protecting privacy. I had my credit card details revealed after a site was hacked, I was contacted by Visa USA department. This is small compared to what the government intend to do to us, they can be trusted least of all. The Corporate Government admit they will sell access to the centralised digital ID databases. Corporations get to see it all - your full life history documented in front of them on demand! Government earn billions - er, the corp government I mean. And hackers do the same but it is illegal, hummm, seems totally injust here, one rule for one and another for the elite! Do what we say, not what we do! Must be their fav motto.
The age old feeble weak argument of nothing to hide nothing to fear! Is total propaganda, fools buy it all the same. We have no rights or sovereignty, nor freedom or privacy then if you accept this. Remember the government are the criminals - look at history dumb people! English + some Americans especially here that worship the state. America made provisions to defend against the state - this is now being destroyed by the same enemy - the corp elite that seek to control your life from birth to death. That wage war on nations, and poison the planet and all life. Open Your Eyes! Want to be free or owned?!
On a sidenote: Do not allow the corp state to use security issues to breach the freedom of the Internet as they are in the process of already doing. The corp-government want to have only the Internet used for them! We can see it sure but not like we do now to communicate freely. The first 5 years of the Internet WWW were the best in free distribution of information, until it was corporatised more and made commercialised with junk, now search engines exist but down rank entries of information exchange and censor such material if it is -not- already widely known to a small extent online. This happens on YouTube and Google daily as we know. Imagine what ISP companies plan on doing to your Internet service they provide. They are currently pushing the small Internet providers out of the mainlines and on to smaller slower connections as Internet usage rises in numbers more are opting to go with the elite owned corps, eventually once IPv6 is implemented this is all that will exist a monopoly of controlled censored Internet access. Shame few people see it as a distant thing when it is already here now happening! This is why people say - I will act when time comes, when I need to. When the time to protest and be a corp elite activist is here and now. Consumers have more power than the whole world's artificial economies combined - we still drive these economies whether the elite like it or not, no matter how much they manipulate it, we still have the buying and boycotting power!
I always remain optimistic in the end, hope is alive. If more of us were effectively active, including myself then we could easily more predict the direction of future issues, it is not what we need to do though. We need to just act. Peacefully, that goes without saying.
How many of you drive the English-German (VW) Volk race car or Aryan car? Or BMW, or Mercedes, how about a Porsche? All corp elite founded cars....Nazi bankers must be happy and proud of the controlled populace. The legacy survives, thanks to English based investors (UK government that is) that rebuilt these industries after the war. Most of you that drive these vehicles are totally clueless - exactly what was intended.
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Disclaimer: all my posts are thought crimes and only IMO in the police state we all live in...
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