The UK Government have started to roll out mandatory Biometric Global ID Cards. These will trace, track and store our information directly, wherever we go. This is now being implemented by the UK Border Agency. If you applied for a residence permit in a category that did not require you to enrol your biometric information and your application is granted on or after 1 December 2012 you must now apply for a biometric residence permit. Mandatory national ID cards violate essential civil liberties. They increase the power of authorities to reduce your freedoms to those granted by the card.
The Communications Data Bill (the Snooper’s Charter) never made it through the legislative process, yet the Secretary of State for the Home Department was asked by Dominic Raab how much her Department currently remunerates (a) telephone companies, (b) internet service providers and (c) others annually for data storage; and what…
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When I consider how hard it was to get my biometric passport, I can sympathise. Good job I could remember where in London my mother was born.. About a century ago..
And there I was thinking that the Coalition had abandoned National ID Cards. Obviously Blair’s scheme wasn’t draconian enough
This government wants to be a dictatorship.