NO2ID

NO2ID is the UK-wide, non-partisan campaign opposing the government's planned ID card and National Identity Register.

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Comedy

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• identity
• cards
• political
• comedy
• campaign
• no2id
• National
• register
• ID
• Lucy
• Porter
• Josie
• Long
• Wil
• Hodgson
• Gary
• le
• Strange

[Transcendentality]

What civil liberties exactly would an ID card dissolve? Why are they any different to a vehicle license plate? A passport?

An ID card is technically proven to be more so difficult to fake, thus reducing ID fraud; which incidentally is at it's height. It has been elected by the British public in the last TWO general elections and would aid the police immeasurably by reducing multiple agency involvement. Progress, anyone? Or oh noes, rhetorical barcodes!

[Whitenightfilms]

The difference between an ID card and a vehicle licence plate or passport is that with this new system all of your details are held on one database with provisions for use amongst public and private sectors. As the law stands there are 50 categories that must be submitted but, crucially the law allows for them to be added to.

[Whitenightfilms]

Do you not see how this system infringes upon our civil liberties both now and in the future. Big business having access to personal details, they'd never use them in an imoral way and nor would governments or the police because they are always truthful.

[Whitenightfilms]

It has not been technically proved that an ID card is more difficult to fake, look on the guardian website for an article about cloning passport's for proof of the fallibility of the system.

[Whitenightfilms]

.ID fraud is not about the card itself it is more about the information it contains if that is all in one place it will be a lot easier to get at than if it is spread around multiple authorities.

I fail to see how a multi billion pound system that is open to abuse is progress. and I hardly think that when people voted in the election, if they did at all, they were voting on ID cards.

[Whitenightfilms]

Hello to all you viewers,

I'd really appreciate any feedback on wether this video helps you to understand the issues behind the NO2ID campaign and want to get inolved.

Thanks very much

Fred

[frazzlea]

There is some glimmer of hope however. All opposition parties are against this sinister scheme, so as long as you DON'T VOTE LABOUR at the next election the whole thing will be scrapped, so happy days people! when they're out we can rejoice a little that our liberties are less under threat! :-)

[bcpoo]

hey guys dont just write about it do something join the no2id coalition and pledge your non coopreation and do not register for an Id card at all we beat the poll tax and if we stick together be can stop this too

[delusion23]

They could make it so that you can only buy food if you have an ID card, thus starving people into getting them :( Or make it so you cannot get a job if you don't have an ID card. By making having no ID card a major inconveniance they could get a vast majority to own them without having to punish anyone directly...

[spike2012]

Putting trust into government is fine, as long as people remember we are the government. Anyone can be an MP.

Oh -

HM Revenue & Customs has admitted to losing the details of 25 million individuals, with 7.25 million UK families potentially affected.

FAIL!

"asbestos is perfectly safe"

FAIL!

"Government loses another 45,000 people's private details"

FAIL!

Future headline: "China buy personal information purely for advertising purposes!" ???

[frazzlea]

so there are no positives in this scheme for the British people, just negatives. After world war 2 Winston Churchill did away with the notion of ID papers for all citizens, and implemented a free constitution, all aimed at preventing government fascism to prevent a Nazi style dictatorship ever happening in Britain. Lets hope we don't go back to such times.... only reason i see for this scheme is to reduce British freedoms by increasing state control over the British people. Pure facism

[frazzlea]

information that could be well be erroneous. The ID card will become the gold standard of identity in Britain, which will in turn lead to an over reliance of trust in the card by police, government agencies, banks, air port security etc and this trust will mean less checks are done. The airline industry opposed the introduction of ID cards to their workers, saying it would lead to less stringent checks on those they employ which would actually increase the risk of terrorism.

[frazzlea]

then there's the inevitible administrative cock ups in implementing the scheme,it will end up costing billions more than the billions they already think it will cost, they'll get peoples identities mixed up through imcompetance, and they're bound to get some people's details wrong or enter them incorrectly, all leading to false arrests by the police, mistaken identity, cloned cards to steal your identity, refused credit from banks, refused a job etc, all because of the information on the ID card

[frazzlea]

Apart from them being pointless and not any use in tackling crime, fraud, or terrorism, they're going to cost billions, it's more big brother state control, the technology will be figured out by criminals and they'll be making fake ID cards for terrorists and other criminals making us less safe and more open to identity fraud, and our personal private details, fingeprints and iris scans will be lost by the government, stolen, or sold to private businesses without our say so.

[themonkeywrench]

I will refuse to comply with any of this, even if I have to go to court.

If this scheme is given the go-ahead, millions of people will rebel, and risk criminal prosecutions, like during the Poll Tax Riots. Only a lot more is at stake here.

The British people have become complacent and let the government get away with far too much. We have to send a clear message that we will not stand for a stalker state.

[themonkeywrench]

My view on this is, "Anyone who sacrifices liberty for security deserves neither."

I disagree with the ID card system in other European countries as well, but they are a lot less threatening to personal freedom than ours. For example, Germany's system forbids centralization for obvious historical reasons and new records are not linked to old ones.

The UK's proposed system looks less like Europe's and a lot more like China's.