Some Numbers For Your Consideration…

We’ve blogged before about the disastrous National Programme for Information Technology (see here). NPfIT is the NHS plan to centralise all patient record keeping on yet another Big Brother style supercomputer. Originally budgeted at £2.3bn, it’s now reckoned likely to cost up to £50bn, and it’s the largest civilian IT programme in the entire history […]

ID cards - now the lunacy is unleashed

Great article over at BlairWatch today on just how competent the National Identity Register Database and ‘Identification Gulags’ will have to be (link). Some choice numbers from the article.
We’re looking at a system workload in the first year of ten times the long term load. In a new system set up by a Government IT […]

Prepare The Gulags To Number, Fingerprint, File and Scan Everyone in the UK

After last nights playing with words that ensures every new UK passport applicant from 2008 will have to attend a Government Appointed ‘Gulag’ Identification Centre to prove who you are, then be fingerprinted, have your eye iris scanned and recorded, given a database identifier number, and forcibly placed on the central Orwellian database. You’ll have […]

Write to the House of Lords on ID Cards NOW!

Round five of the parliamentary ping pong that defines “voluntary” as “whenever you have to upate your passport, we’ll stamp, file, index and register you for the National Database” is this Tuesday in the House of Lords. If you have ANY feelings on this issue, then find a Lord/Baroness.Bishop/etc, and tell them why you have […]

UK ID Cards Switching To Chip and Pin For Cost Reasons…

Last week, Andrew Burnham, a junior minister at the Home Office, confirmed the anonymous email by admitting that the ID card scheme would now include chip-and-pin technology because it would be a cheaper way of checking each person’s identity. The sophisticated technology on which this bill was sold will cost too much to operate, with […]

Labour Whips Impose Compulsory ID Cards on UK Population

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety are probably British and should be shot at.”
Link: /.
The decision goes back to the House of Lords. I hope they dig their heels in.

David Mery Arrested under the Terrorism Act

I’m jsut going to post this link to David Mery’s website. David is some I have regular contact with via All About Symbian, and quite frankly, this post is chilling. THis is only a small quote, you’ll want to read the whole thing.
So, basically the Police have decided that wearing a rain jacket, carrying a […]

Pledge Banks - UK ID Card and UK Digital Rights

In case you’ve not seen PledgeBank yet, it’s a site where people say they will do something, but only if a certain number of other people will join them in doing it. It’s had some great successes, probably the most notable one so far is reaching a £10,000 legal defence fund for those who refuse […]

Links from Monday 11th June, 2005

Labour Government planning to use ID Cards as passports. So why do I need to spend £93 on a passport whent he mythical rossetta stone card at £30 on its own is sufficient?
Link: The Register
Apple got it wrong for Podcasters in iTunes 4.9. From bandwidth problems, caching, the inexplicable missing shows from the ipodder.org directory […]

ID Cards and the National Database - Compare and Contrast

You all should know by now where I stand on this, so I’ll offer links and quotes to two articles
Charles Clarke, Current Labour Home Secretary
Identity cards would not have stopped the London bombings which killed more than 50 people and injured many more, Charles Clarke has said. But on balance, the home secretary says, he […]