{"id":951,"date":"2008-01-22T16:57:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T16:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=951"},"modified":"2008-01-22T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T17:00:02","slug":"you-saw-these-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"You saw these stories?"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/idcards\/story\/0,,2240907,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n

ID cards for foreigners within three years<\/p>\n

… which is the modern-day, socially acceptable (to HMG) equivalent of the compulsory wearing of a Star of David. And the first step on the path to Idi Aminism, as you mentioned yesterday.<\/p>\n

On BBQ they run HMG-approved, “ID-lite: it’s alrite” stories.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/7186643.stm<\/a><\/p>\n

But still quote BlindKid, telling it like it is:<\/p>\n

Former Home Secretary David Blunkett, who introduced the initial identity card bill, said the scheme would not work unless everyone had to have a card. “In my opinion, without it being mandatory, there is little point in doing it,” he added.<\/p>\n

And…<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/humanrights\/story\/0,,2241005,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n

FBI wants instant access to British identity data<\/p>\n

… which is just incredible. For those worried by such schemes there are simple steps to avoid it, as Blogdial has repeatedly pointed out:
\n1. Don’t give anyone your personal data
\n2. Vote Tory\/LibDem and let them know why you are prepared to support them.
\n3. DON’T GIVE ANYONE YOUR PERSONAL DATA.<\/p>\n

Then, of course, there is the Prum Treaty, which gives anyone in the EU with access to the right computer, indirectly or directly, access to all your personal government-collected information. Do you know anyone who has heard of it, mentioned it to you, expressed their concern? I don’t.
\nhttp:\/\/www.edri.org\/edrigram\/number5.12\/prum-treaty-eu<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s the secret tunnel through which personal liberty escapes, dug in the depths of night with a stolen spoon, and hidden from sight behind a poster of a busty wench… it goes unnoticed until one day…<\/p>\n

‘That’s not Personal Freedom! That’s a papier-mache model of Personal Freedom!?!?!?! Hang on… OMIGOD Personal Freedom has has been whisked away down the secret tunnel behind the busty wench! How did we not notice!?’<\/p>\n

‘I dunno… I’ve been sleeping in the same room as Personal Freedom for years and didn’t have an inkling anything like this could happen… ‘<\/p>\n

How many times will people ignore the scraping sounds in the night before they wake up?<\/p>\n

On a similar vein, after a year or two of ‘Facebook is fab, you simply must join and be my “friend”‘ articles, there is now a plethora of bleating, indignant tripe being written about how bad Facebook is, and how shocked these commentators are that Facebook has a very convoluted privacy policy, exploits your personal data to the absolute limits, and exists purely to make profit for people who are already incredibly wealthy.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2008\/jan\/14\/facebook<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2008\/jan\/10\/privacy.it<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2007\/dec\/20\/facebook.privacy<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Hang on, you seem to be fucking me up the arse and have been doing for some time but I’ve only just noticed!’<\/p>\n

No pity for fools here. Just contempt for what passes as insightful journalism.<\/p>\n

Gah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/idcards\/story\/0,,2240907,00.html ID cards for foreigners within three years … which is the modern-day, socially acceptable (to HMG) equivalent of the compulsory wearing of a Star of David. And the first step on the path to Idi Aminism, as you mentioned yesterday. On BBQ they run HMG-approved, “ID-lite: it’s alrite” stories. http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/7186643.stm But still quote BlindKid, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,16,34,11,28,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}