UK anti-ID card campaign Gains Momentum

Jack writes "The British No2ID campaign, which opposes the creation of a National Identity Database to hold biometric data on all UK citizens, has created an online pledge as part of an effort to publicise their cause. The three-day old pledge has recently gained the attention of the blogging community, with bloggers bringing a thousand new signatories to the pledge today alone. Readers in the UK are invited to look at the No2ID FAQ on the plans for mandatory ID cards - some of it makes for scary reading." Update: 06/14 17:13 GMT by T : Side note: Tom Steinberg, director of MySociety.org (organizers of this petition) writes "The ID pledge is cool in that it is so big and successful, but it is a very small insight into what pledgebank.com can do." It's actually a much more general organizing tool.

Comments

Re:Dont really care

[aussie_a]

BUT... I do not see why I should have to pay something like £90 when (as a studnet) the governments olny gives me £3000 to live off for a whole year!

Perhaps it's because you're a bad studnet? Perhaps if you're a better studnet you get more money?

NHS

[taskforce]

If we need this to access the NHS does this mean if I get run down by a truck and I don't have an ID card on my person then I don't get treated?

If this is the case I might try cutting an artery and running around the hospital foyer spraying projectile blood and taunting the doctors because they can't treat me, as I won't have registered for an ID card.

Re:Privacy vs "Justice"

[PhotoGuy]

And since we haven't found a descent answer to terrorism in the last couple of years, maybe we should cool down and stop panicing.

Exactly. The "Don't Panic" approach is what helped the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy outsell it's competition (that, and being slightly cheaper).