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.

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I have lived with them for ages

[seti]

I live in Belgium and I have had an identity card since the age of 12. You are obliged to carry it at all times. Not a single person has ever made a fuss about it, and I don't see what all the fuss is about in the UK at the moment.

Last night I was watching a programme on the BBC where a young man was giving false id information to the police - that kind of business could easily be halted by just presenting an id card.

You moron

[Darkman, Walkin Dude]

Sweden is the place where there was forced sterilisation until quite recently? Oh yes, I can see how an ID card might be useful there. I bet it made the eugenics program run like clockwork.

Twit.