Category: UK National Database and ID Card

David Mery Arrested under the Terrorism Act

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I’m jsut going to post this link to David Mery’s website. David is some I have regular contact with via All About Symbian, and quite frankly, this post is chilling. THis is only a small quote, you’ll want to read the whole thing. So, basically the Police have decided that wearing a rain jacket, carrying a rucksack with a laptop inside, looking down at the steps while going in a tube station and checking your phone for messages just tick too many checkmarks on their checklist and make you a terrorist suspect. How many other people are not only wrongly

Pledge Banks – UK ID Card and UK Digital Rights

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In case you’ve not seen PledgeBank yet, it’s a site where people say they will do something, but only if a certain number of other people will join them in doing it. It’s had some great successes, probably the most notable one so far is reaching a £10,000 legal defence fund for those who refuse the UK National ID Card. So the following caught my eye, and is much more appropriate to my circumstances: “I will actively support those people who, on behalf of all of us, refuse to register for an ID card, and I pledge to pay at

Links from Monday 11th June, 2005

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Labour Government planning to use ID Cards as passports. So why do I need to spend £93 on a passport whent he mythical rossetta stone card at £30 on its own is sufficient? Link: The Register Apple got it wrong for Podcasters in iTunes 4.9. From bandwidth problems, caching, the inexplicable missing shows from the ipodder.org directory they used to populate ITMS, the borked tags in RSS 2.0, the lack of communication, the list goes on. “This behavior is, in a word, dumb. In three words, really, really dumb.” Link: Corante Jim Hughes starts Ewan-Watch. Link: Feet Up “Dude, Alfie,

ID Cards and the National Database – Compare and Contrast

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You all should know by now where I stand on this, so I’ll offer links and quotes to two articles Charles Clarke, Current Labour Home Secretary Identity cards would not have stopped the London bombings which killed more than 50 people and injured many more, Charles Clarke has said. But on balance, the home secretary says, he believes ID cards would help rather than hinder the ability to deal with particular terrorist threats. He also suggested that in future civil liberties might have to be curtailed. Consideration would need to be given to checks on people boarding tube trains, ID