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UK Plans To Link Criminal Records To ID Cards

Posted by timothy on from the oh-sure-blame-the-children-again dept.

Death Metal writes with this excerpt from ComputerWeekly.com about the UK's national ID card scheme: "Privacy advocates have reacted angrily to reports that the government plans to link national identity records to criminal records for background checks on people who work with children and vulnerable people. Up to 11 million such workers could be affected immediately if the plan goes ahead. Phil Booth, national co-ordinator of privacy advocates NO2ID, said the move was consistent with the various forms of coercion strategy to create so-called volunteers for national ID cards. 'Biometrics are part of the search for clean, unique identifiers,' Phil Booth said. He said the idea was patently ridiculous when the Home Office was planning to allow high street shops and the Post Office to take fingerprints for the ID card."

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  1. Well, we all know what to do... by kazade84 · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the UK and don't like the ID card proposals? Then use your vote next year!

    1. Re:Well, we all know what to do... by damburger · · Score: 5, Informative

      The conservative party? Would this be the same party that used soldiers in surplus police uniforms to put down the miners strike? The same party that used the SAS to carry out extrajudicial executions? That abolished the right to remain silent in police custody?

      The above post is only 'informative' for young people and those with defective memories. Whatever the Tories say is, as it always has been, a lie. Reflect for a moment that the current Labour party got where it was today by imitating the tories...

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      If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
    2. Re:Well, we all know what to do... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      It seems to be overlooked that the opposition Conservative Party has also pledged to ditch ID cards.

      You seem to have overlooked the fact that the last Conservative government repeatedly introduced proposals for national ID cards, and were generally even worse than the current lot on civil liberties. There is no reason anyone would believe their pledge.

  2. Re:hey, UK by damburger · · Score: 5, Informative

    There you go ladies and gentlemen - the most powerful man in our country, our effective head of state for some issues - voted in by 24278 people in Scotland who, due to the devolved parliament there, will not be affected by many of his decisions anyway.

    Furthermore, he wasn't leader of the Labour party in 2005, so those people did not elected him as PM they elected him as Chancellor.

    This is about as democratic as Iran. Yes, there is technically a vote - but the context of it and result are so warped you cannot really consider it a democratic election.

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    If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?