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Gov't faces backlash over e-Borders travel database
News Privacy campaigner Phil Booth, director of the No2ID group, said his organisation was "extremely concerned" by both the e-Borders database and other centralised government databases. They're building a dossier on anyone who decides to travel...
[February 9, 2009, 15:21]
This is not the whole truth
Talkback Phil Booth, NO2ID’s national coordinator, said: Phil Booth (National Coordinator, national.coordinator@no2id.net) on 07974 230 839, Sure! Why else? Under these changes, the medics would need your specific permission to access your records.
[September 23, 2008, 14:57]
Home Office looks to high street for ID biometrics
News Anti-ID cards campaigner Phil Booth told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the government was trying to sell high-street firms an idea that would not work. The Home Office is selling businesses a pig in a poke," Booth said.
[November 5, 2008, 17:11]
High-street plan for ID card enrolment
News But Phil Booth of anti-ID cards pressure group No2ID expressed disbelief that high-street businesses would voluntarily sign up to provide a costly new service during the credit crunch. Booth asked, adding: "The other question that has to be asked...
[May 6, 2009, 16:07]
IBM, CSC win ID card biometrics contracts
News However, privacy campaigner Phil Booth of pressure group No2ID told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that the government was wasting public money on an unnecessary scheme. We don't need a centralised identity register, and we don't need to overhaul our systems...
[April 7, 2009, 16:30]
Gov't U-turns on compulsory ID cards for pilots
News Privacy campaigner Phil Booth, the director of the No2ID lobbying group, criticised the plan. The Home Office will be dipping into public money in a spurious giveaway to pensioners," said Booth. Booth added that the government's backtracking shows...
[June 30, 2009, 17:44]
Government to rethink data-sharing plans
News Privacy campaigner Phil Booth, director of No2ID, welcomed the move, but said that the cabinet might still decide to keep the clause, despite Straw's reservations. What a phenomenal turnaround," said Booth.
[March 9, 2009, 14:50]
Home secretary defends high-street biometrics plans
News Anti-ID card campaigner Phil Booth said that far from increasing security, ID cards would be a risk. They are not introducing security and convenience, they are doing exactly the opposite," Booth told ZDNet UK.
[November 7, 2008, 16:34]
Pulling together UK ID card privacy threads
Blog I talked to privacy campaigner Phil Booth of No2ID about it, and he said that the technology "at the moment is very much under wraps", but that it was very difficult to tell if any privacy safeguards had been built into the ID Cards scheme at all.
[February 9, 2009, 16:40]
ID cards to be compulsory for air workers
News Anti-ID card campaigner Phil Booth told ZDNet UK that airside workers at the participating sites would have no choice but to enrol on a scheme in which their biometric details would be indefinitely held by the government on the National Identity...
[November 6, 2008, 16:37]
ID card-based criminal record checks get thumbs up
News But Phil Booth, national co-ordinator of the NO2ID anti-ID card campaign, criticised the trial because he said it tested the customer experience of the CRB check in isolation, while "glossing over the inconvenience and intrusiveness of the ID...
[October 2, 2007, 8:58]
ID cards under fire after HMRC debacle
News The chancellor is almost criminally naive in making such claims," said Phil Booth of NO2ID. Booth added that, for biometrics to truly safeguard personal data as Darling claimed, it would require every use of a person's data, including transfers...
[November 20, 2007, 17:48]
Brown accused of deception over ID cards
News No2ID's national co-ordinator Phil Booth said in a statement: "Gordon Brown's inability to give a straight answer on ID cards, and the deliberate deception — assuming it is not outright ignorance — in some of his answers is scandalous.
[January 11, 2008, 7:51]
ID card costs rise amid security concerns
News And Phil Booth, national co-ordinator for ID cards pressure group NO2ID, said: "It makes the whole system a nonsense; the government is saying that ultimately the whole national identity scheme will come down to a 'flash and go' system.
[November 10, 2008, 8:53]
ID cards: Aviation workers being 'used politically'
News The vetting of people with secure airside access will go way beyond the ID card checks," said Phil Booth, national co-ordinator of No2ID. Representatives of the aviation industry have said they are being used as political pawns to further the...
[July 4, 2008, 16:59]
ID card scheme under review
News The Government's much-hailed "gold standard" of ID is a complete sham," said Phil Booth, No2ID's national co-ordinator, in a statement. The Government is re-evaluating its ID card project as part of a wider review of the Home Office's activities.
[July 11, 2006, 15:50]
Is a pocket Mac next for Apple?
News Bajarin also believes the handheld holds appeal for Apple, especially after seeing the crowds that flocked to 3Com Corp.s Palm booth at Macworld. The question makes Phil Schiller, Apple's head of product marketing, roll his eyes.
[July 26, 1999, 8:48]
A Year Ago: Is a pocket Mac next for Apple?
News Bajarin also believes the handheld holds appeal for Apple, especially after seeing the crowds that flocked to 3Com Corp.s Palm booth at Macworld. The question makes Phil Schiller, Apple's head of product marketing, roll his eyes.
[July 24, 2000, 7:01]
ID cards campaigners aren't giving up
News Phil Booth, national co-ordinator for the No2ID campaign, urged people who opposed the government's plans to keep lobbying MPs. We're three votes wide at the moment, but it's very, very close," said Booth, who warned that some potential rebels...
[February 10, 2006, 10:00]
ID-card contracts allow suppliers to be searched
News Phil Booth, the national co-ordinator of NO2ID, a group campaigning against the government's planned ID card and the National Identity Register, said: "This is something quite extraordinary. Booth said that the clause would affect the services that...
[December 10, 2008, 7:14]
