Brown to let shops share ID card data

Opponents warn that linking police databases with the private sector to beat crime will lead to a ‘surveillance state’ and a big assault on privacy

Gaby Hinsliff, political editor Sunday August 6, 2006 The Observer

Gordon Brown is planning a massive expansion of the ID cards project that would widen surveillance of everyday life by allowing high-street businesses to share confidential information with police databases. Far from intending to dump ID cards once he is in Downing Street, Brown is quietly studying how biometric technology – identifying people by unique markers such as fingerprints and iris patterns – could be expanded over the next 20 years to fight crime.

Police could be alerted instantly when a wanted person used a cash machine or supermarket loyalty card. Cars could be fingerprint-activated, making driving bans much harder to disobey […]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1838363,00.html

And so.

Remember how filthy animal Andy Burnham said that Henry Porter’s famous article, “…swallows the contents of a ridiculous, anonymous email and unquestioningly regurgitates it.”?

It seems that the ‘Frances Stonor Saunders’ email was not only accurate, but it could have gone much further in describing the system of total control that would be possible in a state where these real-time ID cards are rolled out.

Andy Burnham is a liar. He said the contents of that email were ‘ridiculous’ when they were nothing of the sort. Gordon Brown is clearly a man who cannot be allowed into office, since he wants to not only roll out the ID card, but apply ‘Super Nazi’ capabilities to the system. What an amazing beast he is; he has just produced a second child, and yet, wants to sell that very child into a slave society that he wants to have in place by the time it reaces the age of 20. Any man who would sell his child into slavery is a monster. If he can do this to his own children, imagine what he would be willing to do to the children of strangers.

The plan would make the ID cards scheme cheaper, since companies would pay for access to the national identity register – a government database of biometric information being compiled for the ID cards programme. […]

Brown has set up a taskforce, under former HBOS bank chief executive Sir James Crosby […]

Brown believes that, if myriad private databases develop, there is a risk that information will leak or be stolen. The Crosby review is looking at safeguards […]

Brown is an ass. It is clear that he understands nothing when it comes to this subject, and has based his position on the weasel words of vendors and their proxies. We have already discussed at length the insult of being made to pay for the privelege of being turned into a slave, you really should read through the Blarchive entries on ID cards if you are new to BLOGDIAL.

‘There is going to be a key issue over the next 10 to 15 years about identity management right across the public and private sectors,’ said the source close to Brown, adding that immigration control would be only part of it. ‘It’s about people coming to accept that this is not only a necessary but desirable part of modern society over the next 10 years. What [the Tories] are objecting to in the political sphere is going to be absolutely commonplace in the private sphere and saying “it’s not the British way” is just not going to work.’

No there is NOT going to be a ‘key issue’; identity management (doublespeak for ‘trust’) between private entities and individuals is a PRIVATE MATTER, and the market will find its own solutions. Government has no part to play in these private arrangements. Immigration control, DHSS, DVLA etc is another matter entirely, since those are matters between government and individuals, but even then, that relationship is not a license for government to roll out any scheme it likes just because it is given this responsibility. They cannot, for example, comple every visitor to Britain to take a chip implant, or a tatoo or some other invasive dehumanizing control measure. People have inalienable rights no matter what the problem being faced by society, and this is the principle that is being broken by the ID cards proposals and the bogus arguements for their introduciton.

This proposal is not a necessary or desireable part of ANY society, and as we have seen, the ill effects are devastating not only to the economy, but to the spirit of any country where these measures are introduced. Just ask the people who used to live in East Germany what it was like to be under constant surveillance. They hated it, it touched every part of their lives, and supressed every word that came out of their mouths. Imagine that scenario multiplied by orders of magnitude. Not only will every word you say or type be used against you, but every purchase, every journey, every association (both intentional and unintentional) will be up for inspection. There cannot be a single person who thinks that this is a good idea, or that this is a British idea. The only people who are for this are those who imagine that they and their relatives will somehow, by some ‘tech-magic’ that they cannot understand be immune to surveillance, otherwise, they would apply this imagined scenario to themselvs and thier children and say, “absolutely not”.

If the private people of this country decide to accept fingerprint readers at their banks, then that is a matter for them and their banks. The banks will provide insurance against datatheft. They will be responsible to their clients. If only one person suffers at the hands of a bank with a biometric ID verification system and this is publicised, it would ba disaster for the bank. This is why they, if they were to do it at all, would be much more careful than the responsibility-free government who does not even say sorry for its errors as we have seen again and again.

It is not only the Tories that are objecting to this proposal; everyone who understands what it means is against it, and they know it. They are desperately trying to figure out a way to salvage the contracts for the companies that have lined up with shears to fleece the british public. It is a shameful an despicable action.

The only way to stop this is to not line up to be processed. Without biometric data in the system, there are no applications that can be devised after the fact; no feature creep, no unforseen circumstances, no data theft…nothing.

Do not register for the NIR. Period. There is no benefit to you, and a great amount of danger to you and subsequent generations if you do enter it.

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 6th, 2006 at 9:31 am and is filed under NIR.