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No2ID or No2NIR?
Talkback ADM, Since you asked, here are my initial thoughts in respect of No2ID and more importantly, the proposed NIR (National Identity Register) System. I’m not convinced a physical plastic ID card will work ("I lost mine the other day officer") nor am I...
[July 22, 2008, 9:23]
Ho Hum
Talkback > In fact, I wonder why it bothers you? I doesn't bother me in the slightest. I in turn wonder why you were so upset that I haven't published my life history on what is at the end of the day a newspaper comment site.
[July 16, 2008, 9:25]
This is not the whole truth
Talkback Why would you want your medical data on this ridiculous system? Well, for my part, I'm not exactly sure but it would presumably have something to do with the medics being able to see it; yes? Sure! Why else?
[September 23, 2008, 14:57]
Stolen e-passports 'worth millions' on black market
News Thousands of UK e-passports stolen on Monday are likely to sell for up to £20m on the black market, say privacy experts. A van carrying about 3,000 blank e-passports and visas was hijacked on route to RAF Northolt, near London.
[July 30, 2008, 9:25]
Government claims 'no change' in ID cards policy
News The ID cards scheme will not be scrapped, despite rumours to the contrary, according to government sources. The Guardian on Monday reported that Gordon Brown had ordered a review of the technology to be used in the scheme due to cost.
[November 5, 2007, 16:31]
Wow !
Talkback Hi there Mr. Thinkfeeldo, You really have drunk the coolaid huh? Eitehr that or this is a pure Troll .well for the benefit at least of those that read your comment and felt moved to agree . Time and again we are told by senior security service...
[July 7, 2008, 18:21]
Oh Please !!
Talkback > IPS chief executive James Hall said in a statement: We are better placed than ever to build on our successes in the passport service to deliver the National Identity Scheme. Another glaring example of the "Policy is Truth" effect.
[July 3, 2008, 11:57]
MP: ID card scheme is 'doomed to failure'
News The UK government's ID cards scheme has attracted heavy criticism from a senior Liberal Democrat MP, following the publication last month of an official report into a pilot biometrics programme. Nick Clegg MP, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Home...
[January 15, 2007, 12:36]
That is the question
Talkback thinkfeeldo, Thanks for taking up the challenge. Here are my responses to yours: I tend to agree with your points here, but would add that your "biometrics" are not just yours and yours alone as you rightly say, but they are also immutable.
[July 22, 2008, 9:22]
HMRC fiasco: Security experts predict fallout
News The loss by HM Revenue & Customs of 25 million child-benefit claimant records has understandably sparked a host of reactions from security and legal experts. Ovum principal analyst Graham Titterington encapsulated the scale of the event by saying...
[November 23, 2007, 10:29]
Not in my back yard - No Really
Talkback So now the Home Office and the IPS want to involve the councils in their dastardly scheming. Thankfully no2id saw this one coming and persuaded our council to approve a motion that prevents them from being involved in anything NIRish unless...
[April 10, 2008, 15:16]
Knowledge breeds contempt for NIR/ID
Talkback As someone who has supported no2id from it's very early days, I can say that when out and about talking to people about this issue I have met only two classes of people: Those that already know about the issues and are opposed.
[February 7, 2008, 13:06]
ID cards campaigners aren't giving up
News Campaigners against the introduction of a UK biometric national identity card scheme have vowed to keep up the struggle, even if parliament passes the government's IT card bill next week. Phil Booth, national co-ordinator for the No2ID campaign...
[February 10, 2006, 10:00]
FoI
Talkback Bravo no2id :-) When I first heard what Blair was going to create in the Freedom of Information Act, I thought my friend was kidding me on. Then I read it and thought, "Blair really hasn't thought this one through has he?
[February 23, 2009, 15:11]
Government abandons ID card bill
Talkback Good that this ridiculous piece of legislation has died. Now we just need to make sure that it doesn't come back, no matter who wins the election.www.no2id.net
[April 5, 2005, 14:58]
Scottish Pragmatism
Talkback Maybe President Brown's cultural inheritance is finally breaking through. He is surely not a complete idiot. He must have heard the arguments put forward by the likes of no2id, Privacy International & various highly regarded security/id theft...
[January 11, 2008, 10:53]
Land Registry dismisses ID-theft danger
News The Land Registry has attempted to dispel accusations that its online register leaves homeowners open to ID fraud. It has denied claims by the anti-ID cards pressure group, NO2ID, that it has not paid sufficient attention to security in making...
[August 15, 2007, 17:07]
Brown accused of deception over ID cards
News The prime minister Gordon Brown has reiterated his backing for ID cards this week in the face of accusations his support for the scheme is wavering. During prime minister's questions this week, the leader of the Conservatives David Cameron...
[January 11, 2008, 7:51]
Gov't: ID cards still have majority support
News A majority of the public remains in support of the National Identity Scheme, according to the latest figures from the Identity and Passport Service. The latest tracking research on the scheme, carried out by Taylor Nelson Sofres and published on...
[October 24, 2008, 8:16]
Home Office finalises ID management plans
News The Government has admitted that it doesn't yet have a definite plan for the implementation and management of its ID card scheme, despite having spent £46.4m on the scheme to the end of May this year.
[October 19, 2006, 15:35]
