At last someone is listening. In a massive U-turn, it now appears that ID Cards will not be compulsory for any UK citizen, so says new home secretary Alan Johnson.
However, in line with this governments ongoing love affair with databases, a new national identity database register that captures the personal details of everyone who applies for a passport.
This database will come online from 2011-12 and will be covered by legislation that will allow fines to be issued if ‘you’ don’t keep it updated with personal details such as change of addresses etc.– sounds like another big-brother back door tentacle to keep tracking information on the population to me. – Not much change there then!
One battle against this Big-Brother government may be won, but there are still more to be tackled. Perhaps when the Labour government gets ousted at next year we will be able to get rid of many of the other elements of surveillance Britain.
By the way, well done to the NO2ID campaign.
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