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purplecthulhu at 06:23pm on 29/01/2008
purplecthulhu at 06:23pm on 29/01/2008It appears that No2ID has not only received a leaked government document on 'delivery' of the ID card/database scheme but has annotated it and released it to the wide world.
You can read it here and elsewhere.
Choice comments about the objectives of the scheme:
'All five 'fundamental' objectives, 4 of 5 'highly desirable' objectives, and 4 of 6
'desirable' objectives are national and international policing and order issues. All but
one - "Increasing public reassurance in ID assurance" - are gains for big government
with little or no benefit to the citizen, though even that single exception is arguably a
gain for government: such "reassurance" could only arise if people believe in the ID
system itself.'
So no surprises there then. It is about public control not anything else, and the discussion of methods of coercion to get people onto the database are just part of this mindset.
Maybe now's the time for the BBC to rebroadcast 1990, or update it for the dog days of the current labour regime where the public has once again become the enemy to be controlled.
You can read it here and elsewhere.
Choice comments about the objectives of the scheme:
'All five 'fundamental' objectives, 4 of 5 'highly desirable' objectives, and 4 of 6
'desirable' objectives are national and international policing and order issues. All but
one - "Increasing public reassurance in ID assurance" - are gains for big government
with little or no benefit to the citizen, though even that single exception is arguably a
gain for government: such "reassurance" could only arise if people believe in the ID
system itself.'
So no surprises there then. It is about public control not anything else, and the discussion of methods of coercion to get people onto the database are just part of this mindset.
Maybe now's the time for the BBC to rebroadcast 1990, or update it for the dog days of the current labour regime where the public has once again become the enemy to be controlled.