As I said, I didn't do the last one - or the one before that. I was out that
day. Millions are. The fine is a distraction.

Best

Simon


On 20/03/2011 22:08, "James Morris" <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you don't fill it out, you'll legible to pay a £1000 fine.
> Apparently your local council will lose out financially due to your
> lack of cooperation (so who pockets the £1000 fine)? Personally I'll
> just fill the bloody thing in and begrudingly tell them I earn less
> than this, and have these qualifications and and yes that's the
> address of where I work. If they want to do me for terrorism the best
> they've got on me is a gaily coloured fractal image named
> osama_bin_laden.png and some stupid emails in which I spout nonsense,
> and perhaps a motive for disgruntlement (wage/education inbalance).
> 
> j4m35
> 
> 
> On 20 March 2011 16:26, Simon Biggs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The census use to be government run in the UK but they asked for sensitive
>> information that could be used against you. I understand its value for
>> planning and consider some aspects of it valid. When I was in Australia I
>> always filled it in. At that time they didn't ask about things I find
>> difficult now. The UK have now decided to use a US company, and a dodgy one
>> at that, making the issue more difficult. Firstly, the data will be
>> collected and processed by a military organisation and, secondly, US law
>> might override UK law and require disclosure, making a mockery of the UK's
>> data protection systems.
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> Simon
>> 
>> 
>> On 20/03/2011 16:08, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> In the US, the census is government run; Azure worked for them this year.
>>> It's important for people to fill the stuff out, since funding and votes
>>> depend on it. Oddly, othodox Jews resisted.
>>> 
>>> - Alan
>>> 
>>> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Simon Biggs wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I ignored the last one and will ignore this one. I'm a private citizen.
>>>> 
>>>> Best
>>>> 
>>>> Simon
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 20/03/2011 12:50, "list|marianne" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Resistance to the decennial census is growing as a coalition of anti-war
>>>>> groups, pacifists, religious organisations and digital activists begin
>>>>> raising public awareness about the role of Lockheed Martin, America's
>>>>> largest arms manufacturer.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The company, which makes Trident nuclear missiles, cluster bombs and F-16
>>>>> fighter jets, won  the ?150m contract to run the census on behalf of the
>>>>> Office for National Statistics (ONS).
>>>>> 
>>>>> "The really worrying thing is the fact that the information being
>>>>> collected
>>>>> in the next census ? including new questions on sources of income and
>>>>> place
>>>>> of birth [to help monitor immigration] ? would be ideal  fodder for the
>>>>> kind
>>>>> of anti-terror analyses being carried out by Lockheed, and could lead to a
>>>>> faraway database identifying thousands of us as potential 'threats'."
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lockheed Martin ? which does 80% of its work for the US defence department
>>>>> ?
>>>>> assists more than two dozen American government agencies and is involved
>>>>> in
>>>>> surveillance and data processing for the CIA and FBI. It has
>>>>> controversially
>>>>> provided private contract interrogators to the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
>>>>> and
>>>>> Guant?namo Bay in Cuba.  All US-based companies are subject to the Patriot
>>>>> Act, which allows the US government to have access to any data in the
>>>>> company's possession. Campaigners have warned this could give the US
>>>>> government access to detailed and personal data on the UK's entire
>>>>> population.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/19/census-boycott-lockheed-martin
>>>>> 
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>>>> 
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