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Story: Half of UK opposed to ID cards

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Re: Nothing to hide

Sorry Mr Tiddy, but we both have something to hide and what's more we both have an automatic expectation that we will be allowed to hide it.

Privacy is a word that is defined as the hiding of our personal private information from those that we don't want to have it.

Thought experiment.

The government have just passed a new law that means you are required on pain of a £1000 fine to make a copy of all your keys (house, car, garage, office) and take them along with your birth certificate and passport to the nearest cop shop (assuming you still have one) and hand them in. Any civil servant, or agency employee would then be allowed to wander into your house or wherever, whenever they feel like it without telling you in advance .. or even after they have left.

No problem with that?

After all, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing fear!

The NIR is pretty much exactly this, but in the data domain. It is an awesome breach of our privacy. It is totally unprecedented in human history. Even the likes of China, North Vietnam and don't have anything close to this. Furthermore the only times any comparable precursor has even been attempted has been just prior to a totalitarian takeover .. many of which this country has been instrumental in tearing down.

That isn't the Britain our forefathers fought and died for.

Sorry.

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