NO2ID and Privacy international have issued a £1000 bounty for anyone who can legally obtain the fingerprints of Gordon Brown and those of his typist/Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
The stunt was inspired by the publication in Germany of the fingerprints of their Interior Minister.
The Government is pedalling the idea that retinas & fingerprints are a biometric […]
November 20, 2007 – 4:48 pm
To lose one person’s details is unfortunate, but to lose 25 million database records looks like a carelessness. Or as Geeklawyer prefers to say, a fuck-up that only the civil service can execute flawlessly.
The entertaining thing listening to Alastair Darling is his bland reassurance that things will change in future. In effect he was saying […]
November 29, 2006 – 7:37 pm
Geeklawyer is a bit alarmed that the Advertising Standards self-Authority correctly decided that no2id’s recent Guardian advert portraying Tony Bliar as Hitler was not an infringement of the ASA’s Cap code clause 5.1 on decency.
August 15, 2006 – 5:57 pm
The police have deemed the recent raft of pro-prosecution legislation insufficient. They become bored of all those tiresome judicial processes and now want more summary powers.
Readers may also be interested in another recent provision that allows citizens to be stripped of their property and livelihood without a criminal trial:
s 241 Proceeds of Crime Act 2002: […]
By Ruthie
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Also posted in Civil liberties & human rights, crime
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Tagged anti social, assets, assets recovery Agency, children, crime, database, High Court, ID Cards, judiciary, legislation, Police, prosecution, summary
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Sadly it was inevitable: the House of Lords had to compromise on ID cards with the Armstrong amendment. That amendment made passports a designated document for which an ID card was mandatory after 2010.
Bummer. But the fight goes on - as the public become more aware of the cost and civil liberties implications hostility will […]
Rather than working this afternoon the ever slothful and indolent Geeklawyer skived off and went to the Cinema to watch V for Vendetta. Derived from a comic book by David Lloyd & Alan Moore (thanks Lilian), the latter of whom who was unaccountably unhappy with it, and with screenplay by the Wachowski Brothers it revolved […]
By Geeklawyer
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Also posted in Media
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Tagged Blair, Civil Liberties, database, film, Guantanamo, hollywood, identity, New Labour, parliament, Police, protest, Serious Organised Crime Act, terrorism
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First, Stella Rimmington said that ID cards would be useless unless they were perfect and unforgeable. Then the legendary Jane Bond, AKA Baroness Park, said that they would be a gift to terrorists, enemy states and criminals.
Charitably, she omitted to mention that they would be vastly useful to the most sinister and evil enterprise […]
February 13, 2006 – 8:34 pm
Neo-Labour Scumbags have succeeded in passing amendments requiring ID cards by stealth.
Bugger. Next: more Lords resistance and then civil disobedience.
February 12, 2006 – 9:37 pm
With the desperately important ID cards vote in the Commons tomorrow Geeklawyer was particularly disappointed to see Gordon Brown regurgitating all the usual discredited nonsense about ID cards: they won’t cost billions, they’ll stop terrorism. And the traditional attempt to assert some vague threat that only ID cards will defeat: “the world has changed”. Which […]
December 28, 2005 – 3:05 pm
The Register reports that the Tories and Lib-Dems may decouple ID cards from passports. Geeklawyer wishes them well since even he would probably get an ID card if he had to in order to get a new passport.
As I...