Yesterday a government minister, Jeff Rooker, indicated at a fringe meeting
that the government had no interest in introducting identity cards.
I in fact generally agree with the arguments of Peter Preston. In a
radically democratic and humane society our identities should not need to
be
G'day Chris,
Yesterday a government minister, Jeff Rooker, indicated at a fringe
meeting that the government had no interest in introducting identity cards.
I in fact generally agree with the arguments of Peter Preston. In a
radically democratic and humane society our identities should
Greetings Economists,
Rob Schaap writes,
... we should remember that we do not in fact live in villages, and that
computer records and smartcard IDs are not the mode of identification that
held at that time. People you don't know, over whom you have no reciprocal
knowledge-power, no
At 06:09 PM 10/02/2001 +, you wrote:
. It was also very hard (Martin Guerre aside) to pretend to be
someone else - nowadays, anything that depends on computers and cards can be
wrong or forged, and difficult to find, check, disprove and correct.
Recently, there's been a rash of identity
The liberal Guardian once again leads the way in New Labour's
modernisation of Britain. Peter Preston was editor of the Guardian
from 1975-95.
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The case for ID cards is now overwhelming
We have so many bits of plastic already - one more won't hurt
Peter Preston
Monday October 1, 2001
The
Peter Preston wrote:
So, as a white-faced world carries on waiting, what will all good civil
libertarians be doing this week? Packing their bags and heading
for Brighton to demonstrate against David Blunkett's sudden passion for
national identity cards? Perhaps. But let's do logistics first.
