Frances Stonor Saunders vindicated again
July 10th, 2009More lies, deception and this time, maybe a slip up from the liars at totalitarian central known as Neu Liebour:
A Big Brother row erupted last night after the minister in charge of ID cards expressed a desire to load them with sensitive personal information such as medical records.
The Home Office insists the microchip contained on the controversial cards will store only basic details such as name, date of birth, a facial scan and fingerprints.
But Home Office Minister Alan Campbell has told MPs that a ‘future Government’ may want ‘to bring forward proposals to add to the amount of data held on a card’.
In a late-night Commons debate on Monday night he added: ‘Some people, including me, would quite like additional data on an identity card.
‘I am personally persuaded that if there were an ID card and it had scope for further information-some of that information, for my personal circumstances, would be a good thing.’
Opposition MPs accused the minister of inadvertently revealing the Government’s true agenda to store medical and even criminal records on the chip.
LibDem home affairs spokesman Tom Brake said: ‘As soon as this unnecessary scheme is rolled out, the Government will seek to store more and more information on it in the dubious name of security and personal benefit. This illiberal, unworkable and unforgivably expensive scheme must be scrapped immediately.’
Last month Home Secretary Alan Johnson announced the £5billion ID cards scheme would no longer be compulsory.
A plan to force airport workers to carry them was dumped, along with a long-term commitment to legislate to make the cards universal once 80 per cent of the population has one.
But anybody applying for a passport will still have to sign up to the National Identity Register and could be fined up to £1,000 if they do not keep their records up to date.
Ministers insist people will be keen to carry the cards as they will make life more convenient and make it easier to open bank accounts.
Last night the Home Office denied Mr Campbell had revealed a secret agenda.
A spokesman for the Identity and Passport Service said: ‘When we issue ID cards later this year there will be no spare capacity to hold information beyond that already laid out in legislation.’
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1198673/Minister-wants-medical-records-ID-cards.html
Imagine a world where, as is the case with your drivers license in the UK, you can get points on your license to exist: your ID Card.
The police put points on your card because you dropped litter accidentally… actually, it will be a CCTV camera connected to a computer that will scan your face and then put points on your ID Card automagically.
This is what the future is going to be like if ID Cards and the NIR are not utterly and completely abandoned.
Once again, Frances Stonor Saunders is prescient on this:
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There will be spaces on this database for your religion, residence status, and many other private and personal facts about you. There is unlimited space for every other details of your life on the NIR database, which can be expanded by the Government with or without further Acts of Parliament.
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http://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1207
That is from famous ‘Anonymous Email’ that we love to quote at BLOGDIAL, and that fascist Andy Burnham said was ‘ridiculous’.
Not so ridiculous now is it?
Of course, what the Anonymous Email says about this insanely evil scheme is true; there is literally unlimited space for extra details to be stored, and when the vicious totalitarian lie machine Alan Campbell says, “there will be no spare capacity to hold information beyond that already laid out in legislation” he knows he is lying. Even if the card had no electronics in it at all, the NIR has the potential to have all the space they need to hold everything about your life from the day you are born to the day you die.
When they swipe your card, your records will come up, including all your medical records, your ‘criminal’ convictions, your bank transactions, the names of your spouse and children, your travel records… EVERYTHING you have EVER done, EVERYWHERE you have ever been, EVERYTHING you have ever bought, and if you use email, write on a blog etc, EVERYTHING you have ever written.
And that is ALL BOMB BAD.