According to Home Office minister Meg Hillier, young people should embrace having all of their personal data taken by the government and stored in one database. Why? Because the ID card they’d get in return would be a “convenient” way of getting into bars.
If this is the best defence they can come up with, even they don’t know why they’re pushing ahead with the expensive and pointless ID cards and associated database!
Young people don’t need an ID card to prove their age – there are plenty of other options out …

The appearance of ID cards has been finalised – and they will not feature the Union Flag because it “may upset members of the nationalist community in Northern Ireland”. It is ridiculous.
However, it really doesn’t matter – the ID cards will be scrapped as soon as we get a Conserative government (which we will hopefully get after the next election within a year). And then they will confined the scrapheap of history, where they belong. Unfortunately taking a significant amount of taxpayer’s money with them.
This authoritarian Labour government has systematically …

The government is finally announcing some good reforms to the electoral system: making people provide ID before they can cast their vote. I have never understood why the ability for people to just rock up to the polling booth and cast a vote providing only the barest minimum of information to “prove” that they are who they say they are and undertake quite possibly the most important action that any British adult can.
They also plan to introduce individual voter registration, rather than registering by household. Again, this is something I …

First we have to pay for the privilege let the government hold all of our personal details in one giant database and give us a laminated card reducing our life to a magnetic strip. Then we have tthing changes and we don’t tell them asap:

Women who change their name after marriage could face fines of up to £1,000 if they fail to tell the government, under new proposals.
Anyone with a biometric passport or ID card will be required to notify the National Identity Register of changes to the personal data …

Pity it doesn’t count for anything.

The Scottish Parliament has voted against the UK Government’s plans to introduce ID cards.
MSPs backed a Scottish Government motion stating the scheme would not increase security or deter crime, while raising concerns about civil liberties…
But Labour declined to back the motion, saying parliament should focus on issues which were devolved to Scotland. (BBC)

To a certain extent, yes, the Scottish Parliament should only focus on devolved matters. But ID cards are such an important issue for us all that any intervention from politicians against these impositions …

Disgusting.

Forcing them on those who can’t refuse, and those who don’t know that they should. Labour should be ashamed.

I am opposed to ID cards. They are absolutely wrong. But there is one thing – just one thing – that could possibly make me more disgusted at this government’s attempt to infringe our human rights.
That would be this story:
Identity cards could be handed out to children as young as 14, a home office minister has suggested.
The first ID cards are due to be offered to 16 and 17-year-olds from 2010 as part of a plan to introduce the controversial scheme in stages.
But Meg Hillier said the age range was …

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From the BBC:

ID cards ‘could threaten privacy’

What do you mean could threaten privacy? They most certainly do! And beyond that, it is also possible to cliam that they don’t just “threaten” privacy, but they breach it.
ID cards are simply wrong. They are a massive – and completely unnecessary – intrusion in to our lives. Our lives do not belong to the governemnt, and neither does our information.
We are all far more than a magnetic strip or microchip in a plastic card.
I trust the government – not just this government, but …

The very idea of ID cards is bad enough. But that we would actually have to pay to give the government all of our personal details out of our own pockets just adds insult to injury.
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, promised that 80 per cent of Britons would have a biometric identity card within nine years.The Home Office is planning to charge £30 for a stand-alone card, and about £93 for a combined passport and ID card. (The Times)
I don’t want an ID card. My life is more than can …