Stall at fountains, St Augustines Parade from 1pm -> 4pm
Meeting at White Bear, St Michaels Hill at 7pm.
... not quite. But what they're trying to do is a far greater threat. Unfortunately, the Home Office's push for a database of all our emails and phone calls got very little media coverage.
Unlike the ID card system, this communications database is easily achievable and would be relatively cheap. This astonishing grab for our most private information, in a form which is easily abusable, doesn't even need further legislation -- it is already allowed by the so-called Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. As such, it is surely the biggest of many surveillance threats to British freedom.
Last week, the Home Affairs Select Committee condemned all such national databases. Sir John Major also spoke out against these intrusions into our privacy.
In May, the Govt decided to hand out billions of pounds worth of ID contracts to every company that bothered to apply. They also tried to break the long-standing principle that governments cannot legally bind future parliaments.
In March, the Govt finally released the report from the ID taskforce that Gordon Brown ordered when still Chancellor. It laid out 10 clear principles for the scheme -- and the Govt breaks every one.
NO2ID is a highly respected campaign group who recognise the extreme danger of open-ended national databases, especially the one behind the Government's ID card scheme.
We have already seen the Government lose the entire country's child benefit records. Whoever controls our data controls our lives.
Andy Burnham, the ex-Minister for ID Cards told us:
"Anyone who is worried about these improvements to the security to our country clearly has something to hide."
That includes 56% of the public, according to the latest poll where ICM polled 1001 people in July 2006.
The ex-Minister is one of very few people who actually recommend their ID card surveillance scheme. He and other collaborators are so desperate to snoop into the public's private lives, that they have deceived the public & Parliament innumerable times about the scheme.
Bristol NO2ID are a group of professionals and students based in and around Bristol UK who represent the nationwide NO2ID campaign.
We bring together individuals and organisations from all sections of the community and seek to ensure that the case against the identity scheme is forcefully put forward in the media, in the corridors of power and at grassroots level.
Watch NO2ID's own introductory video
The Case against ID Cards
ID Cards are a front for a surveillance database on the public that is 20x more intrusive than any other on the planet... more
At whim, the Government will be able to deny us access to public services, to get a mortgage and even travel in/out of the country.
They will hit you in the wallet, hard.
The Government have about as much success implementing IT projects as the England have with international football... more
All the benefits the Government have claimed for the scheme are deeply misleading.
ID Cards are the latest in worrying series of totalitarian measures introduced by this Government... more
How you can help fight the ID scheme
- Join our local campaign, and help spread the word around Bristol. We will be conducting as prominent a campaign as possible and would really appreciate your help! If you are interested in campaigning, or would just like to be kept up-to-date with our activities, please join our mailing lists. We have a low-traffic one for announcements and one for planning campaigns.
- Join the national campaign. A donation is welcome but not necessary.
- Renew for Freedom. By renewing
your passport early you can:
1. Avoid being forced to attend an interview
2. Avoid being fingerprinted like a criminal
3. Avoid giving up your national insurance & driving license numbers to prevent your tax/income/benefits status and international/car journeys (courtesy of ANPR) being connected to the ID Big Brother database.
4. Save £42+ over the Govt announced passport/ID price of £93. - Request your GP to Opt-Out of the NHS Medical Records database
Whilst giving himself room to manoever, Brown is clearly pushing forwards with centralised identity control.
As local NO2ID supporter, Christina Zaba, points out, central ID control is part of his Transformational Government agenda.
28 November, 2007 Comments (0)
Despite the astonishing emails leaked from the civil service that said Blair’s ID-lite mass surveillance plans involves “huge risk”, the PM is pushing ahead anyway.
20 July, 2006 Comments (0)
9 No2ID supporters turned up, 2 in stocks…
23 June, 2006 Comments (1)
A very successful event, making over £200 for the local campaign. We even got Bristol West MP Stephen Williams to explain why ID cards threaten your freedom so much.
27 May, 2006 Comments (0)
No2ID moves into the resistance phase. The new sinister sounding “ID and Passport Agency” are refusing to say when the deadline for keeping your privacy is, along with other measures to keep No2ID from blocking their totalitarian scheme.
18 April, 2006 Comments (0)
A major victory for local freedom & democracy as Labour councillors are embarrased into abstaining. Bristol No2ID held a demonstration outside the Council House which was covered both locally and nationally.
24 November, 2005 Comments (2)
The Home Office were so desperate to avoid tricky questions that they never informed the public of this event,nor even told the BBC they were coming. Bristol No2ID tracked them down and forced the ID Cards Minister himself to debate on camera. He lost.