At 4:48 PM +0100 4/30/04, Dave Green wrote: > bubbling fondues > > Mr Blunkett's publicity campaign to gee Britons to get > inky-fingered, red-eyed and funky with their biometric > entitlement cards continued this week. "This is about true > identity," he said on Breakfast with Frost, in an apparent > attempt to win over the Vernor Vinge fans. "Being known, > being checkable, being used in order to ensure we know who's > in the country, what they're entitled to and whether they're > up to no good". And if that first mention of the cards' > unique "Santa Claus" capability to discern moral failings > in carriers isn't terrifying enough, you really should read > the government's new 160 page opus on how they'll be running > the show. It's not about the ID cards: it's about the huge > centralised biometric database the government is planning to > smuggle in on the back of it. Couldn't they just put the > biometrics on the card where we can see them, and then store > a comparison hash or some other translucent database > technique centrally? Of course not. Terrorists would win. > Feel free to add your own comments to the consultation, > which requires replies by July 20th. And we're *so* sure > they'll count all the responses correctly this time. > http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs3/identitycardsconsult.pdf > - consultation. "Vindicated" by bomb plot, apparently: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3607141.stm > - vs http://www.spy.org.uk/spyblog/archives/000251.html >http://www.libdems.org.uk/index.cfm/page.homepage/section.home/article.6599 > - why not print them out + carry with you at all times?
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