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nolittleengland. Short version, the House of Lords has accepted a "compromise" wherein ID cards won't be compulsory until 2010 (ie after the next Election) but being on the NIR will be from as soon as it's set up (sometime in 2008).This is apparently a good one for civil liberties campaigners as it gives us another election before the cards are compulsory. Problem.
It's not the cards that we object to
It's the National Identity Register. I do not want to live in a database state, where some "unhackable" database (the Titanic was "unsinkable", remember?) has record of my biometric information and essential identiy details.However, the Home Office confirms you can renew your passport at any time for any reason.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.National Identity Register? £2,500 fine for failing to keep your details up to date?
I am not a number, I am a free man.
Say No2ID.
Yes, I'm at work, yes I'm swamped. Regardless, I'm angry and scared about this one.
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That's scary. 3 years minimum until the General Election unless Brown pulls a fast one, which NuLab can't afford. We're in trouble either way.
Join the revolution comrade?
ID cards are turning me into Citizen Smith. I'm finding myself saying things like "if parliament won't stop ID cards, then the people will have to do it" and actually meaning it.
And I'm making Wolfie references constantly. Really must get around to reading the Power report as well, it's sat next to me on the floor awaiting review.
Let's say there are only five hundred people able to put data into this database. It only takes one person to slip up - they use the same log in information for another service, they accidentally reveal their password to somebody, what-have-you - and then the whole system gets compromised. Worse still, because everyone will believe that the system is "unhackable" (which I assume means "you're not going to be able to brute force your way in"), how many people are going to be trawling through the database trying to find errors?
The whole ID cards and database thing scares the crap out of me. I don't care how secure they make the database, the fact is that a lot of people are going to be trying to get into it, and eventually the human element is going to slip up, almost certainly before the mechanical element does.
Let alone the E-European crime sydicate techie types, etc.
You have 500 or however many people working on this. How can you be sure that one of them won't be contacted, bribed, and suddenly the system ain't secure no more.
... I need to hunt down my Passport to see when it expires.
On the bright side, given the timing of things I'll have finished my degree before stuff comes in, so my refusing to go on the database if/when it hits won't cause problems there.
Might cause problems in working, but probably not too much - travelling would be the main problem I'd guess.
That's is scary.
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