ID cards could be used for mass surveillance system

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ID cards could be used for mass surveillance system

By Marie Woolf, Chief Political Correspondent

The Government is creating a system of "mass public surveillance" capable of tracking every adult in Britain without their consent, MPs say. They warn that people who have never committed a crime can be "electronically monitored" without their knowledge.

Biometric facial scans, which will be compulsory with ID cards, are to be put on a national database which can then be matched with images from CCTV. The database of faces will enable police and security services to track individuals regardless of whether they have broken the law.

CCTV surveillance footage from streets, shops and even shopping centres could be cross-referenced with photographs of every adult in the UK once the ID cards Bill becomes law. Biometric facial scans, iris scans and fingerprints of all adults in the UK will be stored on a national database. Civil liberties groups say the plans are a "dangerous" threat to people's privacy.

Mark Oaten, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, said the plans were being brought in by the Government without informing the public. "A new system capable of mass public surveillance is being created with no public debate. The arrival of CCTV cameras which can recognise you and track you without your knowledge means we are stepping into an unknown future," he said...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article306577.ece

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1. War Is Peace

Freedom Is Slavery
Ignorance Is Strength

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[mrfrapp]

2. No2ID

I post this every time a story about ID cards comes up but I make no apologies for it. People need to know that any opposition they may feel towards the increasing authoritarianism in the UK is not unique, that thousands of other people are prepared to stand with them in civil disobediance.

http://www.no2id.net/

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4. And don't forget to sign the pledge! (nt)

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5. Keep posting it

More signatures the better.

Especially when groups are being arrested for daring to peacefully protest ID cards, never mind not carry one. Have to arrest lots of us before they're done, no2id.

Six campaigners held at EU summit

Six civil liberties campaigners have been arrested outside a summit of European ministers on Tyneside.

A spokesman for the group NO2ID said two cars were driving towards the venue of the meeting in Gosforth on Thursday when police stopped them.

A Northumbria Police spokeswoman said four men and two women were held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit criminal damage.

It comes on the second day of the three-day interior ministers' meeting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4225858.stm

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3. The very model of a modern Labour minister

http://eclectech.co.uk/clarkeidcards.php

& "The Swizz of the Cards"
(you'll never look at Blair the same way again!)
http://eclectech.co.uk/swizz.php