Evasion of our rights.

Secret estimates of the benefits and risks of identity cards must be published, the freedom of information watchdog has told the government.

I wonder just how much of our money Teflon spent on this report. But we also wonder just why the government it’s not keen to release it into the public realm? Could it be because the report makes a rubbish of some of the comments that we the people of the UK have been fed about ID cards.

Now I know that anyone who reads this blog might think that because I am so against ID cards I must have something to hide, not so. Its just that there is so much information about the citizens of developed countrys stored on many different data bases, that it is a event just waiting to happen for some one to create a system to link them all. Good I hear people say.

But and it’s a big but do you trust them? The elected members of our or any government not to use this information for gain or for their personal use?

Of course the police would like all the information to be stored on a central network that they could access, just think they would then not have to leave the police station, never mind getting them out of the car.

How long before commercial interests were offered access to the information? And how long before your bank would not give you access to your own money unless you could produce an ID card to prove your identity? Or your insurance company (remember in the UK they want to put your basic medical details on the cards that they would like to produce). Do you honestly believe that commercial companies would not try to harvest the information contained in them?

Then when THEY (notice the big they) would by the use of radio frequency ID (RFID) tags have us totally under their thumbs.


I have just seen this on the BBC web site. My worst fears have been realized.