Source BBC NEWS - 20th july 08
The DfT said from 2009, new biometric ID cards would be introduced for people who work airside in the country’s airports, “allowing an individual to be linked more securely to their own true identity, helping protect against crime, illegal immigration and terrorism”.
source BBC news- 20th july 08
Prison chiefs have dismissed renewed claims that a biometric identity system at a Scottish jail failed so badly it let inmates have a free run.
The issue was raised in a House of Lords exchange on biometric ID cards.
[Source: BBC News- 20th July 08 ]
The government has already spent £32m preparing for its ID card scheme even before it becomes law.
That means spending rose from £25,000 to £63,000 a day in the last six months of 2005, the Home Office said.
And now for the scarey stuff!
According to no2id,
To begin with you need to get them to come to you.
The government’s solution to that problem is to make
people report themselves when they get a passport.
As part of the creeping move to state identity control in Britain, ID interrogation centres are being set up all around the UK . To begin with there will be 69, on top of the existing Passport Offices. A company called Mapeley, which owns the offices of HM Revenue and Customs
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2263208.stm The Inland Revenue has confirmed that it sold its estate of more than 600 buildings to a company based in a tax haven, and admits it wrongly announced the properties were sold to a UK firm. ………..All are part of Bermuda-based Mapeley Holdings Limited, a company ultimately owned by George Soros and US group Fortress Investment)
(HMRC), was given the job of setting them up. Planning applications were mostly in by the end of 2006. Operations started tentatively in 2007, and by the beginning of 2008 over 50 centres were open.
from 2007 onwards when people as young as 16 apply for their first adult passport, they will* have to attend their nearest interrogation centre. There they will be subject to background checks, questioning to test their story against official records, photographs, and, before long, fingerprinting. Registration on the national ID database(s) - the ‘National Identity Register’ or NIR - will follow.
[Source: http://www.no2id.net/ Accessed July 2008]
Now consider this factor.
GP - medical records on database…
Social services records on data base
HMRC records on database.
Banking records on database.
Shopping records on database - tescos, clubcards
Some shops ask for postcodes when purchasing goods - pc world for vat recipts, Brantamo, for shoes. for example.
Leisure cards ownership = on database.
Library cards = on database.
Every book you purchase from a high street store, with credit cards, can be checked back.
If who you are becomes a problem, then so does your ID.
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