NO2ID launches ID resistance competition
Thousands of our supporters have pledged to resist the introduction of the national ID scheme.

Now we need to know exactly HOW you want to take action.

We intend proving that the government can never win this battle, so we've launched a competition to find the most innovative and powerful ways to (legally) throw spanners into the works. Get furtive and join us here for the fun.

http://www.no2id.org/




The ID Cards Bill returned to Parliament today, as bad as it ever was, and in some ways worse. Not a single change has been made in respect of the staunch criticism the Bill received from, for example, the Home Affairs Select Committee, House of Lords Constitutional Committee, Joint Committee on Human Rights and independent studies by Liberty, Privacy International and the London School of Economics.

The Bill is the same insidious legislation as the last - even the Constitutional Committee's recommendation to change its name to something more accurate has been ignored. Their Lordships thought it unusual that the two main parts of the project, the national identity database containing biometrics and personal data, and the trackable audit trail of every occasion where the details are checked, didn't receive a more obvious advert. Perhaps the Home Office thought that the ID Card, Byzantine and Broken Identity Register and Orwellian Audit Trail Bill doesn't have the same ring to it.

The costs to exchequer have leapt to £6bn, and the cost of each card has climbed to £98. Apparently the Home Office forgot to add VAT, the tax on "luxury items" now imposed on a card that will be required by law and makes life without it impossible. Looking at the cost of NHS central records database system that has more than tripled to over £18bn, it is clear that the apparatus of ID cards will be a cash-sink of Titanic proportions.

Data from last year??s UKPS biometric enrolment trials, also published today, show failure rates as high as 1 in 5 for fingerprints and 1 in 20 for iris scans - indicating that biometrics, far from being the viable and secure solution proposed by the Home Office, will cause more problems than they solve and not represent money well spent.

And the justification for this hemorrhaging of cash? The Government has from day one offered nothing but rhetoric rather than arguments . Before the election it was terrorism, now it is identity fraud, and soon it will be something else. ID cards would do nothing to stop cardholder not present card fraud over internet and phone, nor card cloning, the two main sources of fraud that banks suffer. They would not help any form of card fraud unless, for example, the credit card contained a biometric as well that must be matched to that on the ID card, and checked with every purchase.

Imagine an IT system that must continuously check every card purchase of over 60 million people against a database. Then look at Swanwick, the Child Support Agency, the Criminal Records Bureau.

Then write to your MP.



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Herbaholic00 Reviewed by Herbaholic00 on . Required watching: Kill Bill 2 NO2ID launches ID resistance competition Thousands of our supporters have pledged to resist the introduction of the national ID scheme. Now we need to know exactly HOW you want to take action. We intend proving that the government can never win this battle, so we've launched a competition to find the most innovative and powerful ways to (legally) throw spanners into the works. Get furtive and join us here for the fun. http://www.no2id.org/ Rating: 5