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Leaked Government Doc Reveals UK ID "Coercion" Plans

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sanity-is-not-statistical dept.

BoingBoing is relating a hair-raising tale from the UK anti-ID-register group 'NO2ID' that claims to have a leaked government document [PDF] detailing how the UK government plans to "coerce" citizens into a national ID register. "UK campaigners NO2ID this morning enlisted the help of bloggers across the world to spread a leaked government document describing how the British government intends to go about "coercing" its citizens onto a National Identity Register. The 'ID card' is revealed as little more than a cover to create a official dossier and trackable ID for every UK resident - creating what NO2ID calls 'the database state'."

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  1. Broken link by SuperBanana · · Score: 3, Informative

    Boingboing appears to be down; I get "connection reset." Here's the NO2ID group's homepage. Relevant searches on Google/Google News will probably turn up more information of interest than Boing Boing's shoot-from-the-hip sensationalism, anyway.

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  2. Re:Missing authorship information by Bogtha · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a noticeable lack of authorship details.

    I take it back, the IPS are responsible for this, I just didn't spot it because it was written in the third-person.

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  3. Re:24 years behind schedule... by cybereal · · Score: 5, Informative

    Winston, the main character, lived within view of the headquarters of The Party of Oceania which would presumably house Big Brother if he actually existed. The location was called Airstrip One, which according to Winston, used to be known as London.

    Big Brother was British.

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  4. Re:24 years behind schedule... by fishbowl · · Score: 3, Informative


    >Big Brother was British.

    As was Orwell, who was satirizing his contemporary view of British society and government by framing it into a dystopian futuristic novel. But the situation that provoked him to write 1984 was his Labour party job that required him to participate in blacklisting people suspected of being communists. It turns out the real "Big Brother" actually *was* watching his every move and keeping detailed records, and that he really did have to write blatant fabrications on behalf of the government.

    Keep in mind while reading 1984.... Orwell (Blair) was an informant for the government, exposing dangerous communists like Charlie Chaplin and John Steinbeck.

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