No ID
I couldn't help feeling sorry for the speaker from the No2ID campaign who couldn't get into the conference to address a fringe meeting this lunchtime because they er... didn't have any ID.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 1:09 pm
Monday, September 22, 2008
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- Name: Luke Akehurst
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Labour MP for North Durham since 2024. Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Dad. Unite and GMB union member. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
7 Comments:
Probably not as difficult as it used to be to get into my university's Student's Association (not Union, thankfully) on a Friday night when Catherine Stihler (then Taylor) was president ;-)
4:53 pm, September 22, 2008
And when you won't be allowed to use any public service or even walk down the street without your ID card at the ready, will it be so f****** funny then?
5:26 pm, September 22, 2008
I should have added that it was difficult if you didn't have your Student ID card. Getting forgetful - a bad habit that may land me in the cells the minute ID cards proper are introduced.
6:24 pm, September 22, 2008
I don't have any real problem with ID cards in principle but I think they will need to be Europe-wide and I think they will have negligible effect on terrorism, and that seems to be a central part of the Governments case for them
6:26 pm, September 22, 2008
ID cards: These ID cards are more than that, it is what is behind it all!! This could be used by a future Tory government against us all
Such a system would surely be a target for terrorism-We all know that electronic data can be corrupted and eventually it would get hacked. There would be thousands of people with access to it, all it takes is one of these people to get bitter and twisted, then could wipe millions of people from the system at a stroke-these unfortunate people would be deleted from society as if never existed.A lot of this work is obviously going to be contracted out to India and the sub continent at a much greater risk of the date base being held for ransom!!
The Information could be misused by governments as done by the Tories in the 80's with the economic league which blacklisted any one who criticised the Government & system or belonged to organisations that did, so its been done and I don't trust that it will not be misused.
11:05 pm, September 22, 2008
Yes - of course - this is just more data for the government to 'loose', putting us all in danger.
10:04 am, September 24, 2008
If true rather than one of those urban myths this is quite funny though isn't it?
10:31 pm, September 25, 2008
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