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UK Government Passes ID Card Bill

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the putting-off-the-inevitable dept.

cowbutt writes "The two houses of the UK government, the elected House of Commons and the House of Lords have agreed a compromise on Labour's ID cards bill, after Conservative peers accepted a Labour amendment. Under the new amendment, anyone renewing a designated document (e.g. passport) will be able to opt-out of getting a card until 2010, but will still have their details put on the National ID Register immediately."

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  1. A work-around by cogg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Living in Northern Ireland, with dual nationality I'll be going for an Irish passport, instead of a British one. If a British Driving license is a "designated document", I might just have to shenanigan enough to be able to get an Irish Driving license too, come renewal time.

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  2. The T-shirt I want to wear through security ... by timothy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I'm at the airport, I want to have the following T-shirt:

    FRONT TEXT: I'm carrying a picture of myself.
    BACK TEXT: Do you feel safer yet?

    "Proper" ID (that is, rigorously checked, hard to fake, and accurate), for all of the good civil liberty arguments against it, might actually prevent certain types of crime. Them's the breaks.

    Would it deter people who don't mind dying in order to obtain a religo-political goal? Well, it didn't deter the September 11 hijackers, at least not all of them.

    The only way to travel free of possible terrorism is if everyone agrees to be schlepped around nude, drugged, and packed in Jello. Including the terrorists.

    timothy

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  3. Some Context for the Uninitiated by delirium_9 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here's a Guardian link with every article and editorial they have on the issue. Lots of good stuff here.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/idcards/0,,1373591,00.ht ml

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