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National Campaign
- NO2ID - Stop ID cards and the database state! This is the main campaign site fighting this issue.
- NO2ID e-Petition - Sign the online petition to register your opposition.
- Pledgebank "Refuse" Pledge - "I will refuse to register for an ID card and will donate £10 to a legal defence fund but only if 10000 other people will also make this same pledge." - now closed, but a total of 11369 people pledged to refuse to register for ID cards, and they will be just the tip of the iceberg.
- Pledgebank "Resist" Pledge - "I will actively support those people who, on behalf of all of us, refuse to register for an ID card, and I pledge to pay at least £20 into a fighting fund for them but only if 50000 other people will too." - if you feel you can't refuse for any reason, you can still help raise £1 million to support the refuseniks!
Other Links of Interest
- Alan Simpson, MP for Nottingham South, speaks out against Identity Cards - It's encouraging to know that at least one of the local MPs officially endorses our campaign.
- Expensive, pointless, dangerous. - Times: Who needs these mistaken identity cards?
- How Clarke is fiddling the £30 'affordable' ID card - The Register: Home Office figures right, apart from all the numbers.
- Business ID card support collapses - No benefits and it won't tackle terrorism, say London directors.
- Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, eh? - Read an innocent man's account of his arrest and subsequent detention under the Terrorism Act, for merely "looking suspicious" - and he may consider himself lucky!
- Biometrics roadshow kicks off ID cards charm offensive - The public are being invited to try out the technology behind the national ID card scheme at the UK Passport Service's (UKPS) "biometrics roadshow".
- Panic in No 10 as ID card support collapses - Telegraph: Tony Blair's hopes of bringing in a national system of identity cards were looking increasingly imperilled last night amid signs of collapsing public support and panic within the Government.
- ID cards academic attacks Clarke - BBC: The academic whose report on ID cards was branded "technically incompetent" by Charles Clarke has launched a counter attack on ministers.
- Polls show popularity dip of ID cards - Channel 4 News: Support for identity cards has slumped dramatically since plans were made to introduce them, according to the latest survey.
- ID Cards - UK's high tech scheme is high risk - London School of Economics: The likely cost of rolling out the UK government's current high-tech identity cards scheme will be at least £170 per person on the 'lowest cost' estimate
- Identity Cards Will Not Make Us Safer - eGovMonitor: Liberal Democrat Home affairs spokesperson Mark Oaten sets out his party's position on identity cards and highlights why they believe the Government's proposed scheme will not deliver its intended benefits.
- Government shifts its ground on ID cards - yet again - Tony McNulty's admission that the Government has "oversold" the case for ID cards marks only another shift in tactics as far as NO2ID is concerned.
- BBC News: Labour admits ID card 'oversell' - But the government remains committed to the scheme - despite the high cost.
- Guardian: Labour steps back in push for ID cards - Benefits were oversold and legislation is flawed, admits minister.
- Independent: ID cards would not solve terrorism, says minister - A Government minister has admitted that the advantages of national identity cards have been "over-emphasised".
- Times: Minister admits ID card benefits were exaggerated - Tony McNulty, the minister in charge of the ID card project, admitted that ministers had been too enthusiastic in suggesting that the cards could be the answer to a host of problems.
- The LSE Report (Adobe Acobat PDF File) - The London School of Economics & Political Science assessment of the UK Identity Cards Bill & its implications
- 'Bullying' by Whitehall on ID card report - The director of the London School of Economics has accused the Home Office of using "bullying and intimidation" in its attempt to suppress a study about identity cards.
- What data will ID cards store? - The full list of the 49 types of information which the Identity Cards Bill says should be on the register.
- House Of Commons: First supplementary memorandum submitted by Liberty - An interesting read where the Liberty group state their case against ID cards in response to questions posed by the House Of Commons
- Abort, RetrID, Fail? - This article actually has a much more sensible suggestion for the ID card system: voluntary, with no database.
- BBC News "Have your say" - Do you support ID cards? - The BBC debate is now closed, but there are a lot of questions the government really needs to answer. The poll, while unscientific, is still quite revealing.
- Crypto-Gram Newsletter - National ID Cards - Bruce Schneier, Founder and CTO Counterpane Internet Security discusses why a national ID system is fundamentally insecure - concisely written, a VERY good read!
- Schneier on Security - Biometric Passports in the UK - Why biometrics will be a very expensive yet only slightly effective method of increasing security
- Forgers will crack e-passports within a decade - "All we can do is keep changing," says head of UK Passport Service.
- ID cards 'wouldn't stop attacks' - Identity cards would not have stopped the London bombings which killed more than 50 people and injured many more, Charles Clarke has said.
- ID cards are to Blair what poll tax was to Thatcher - Michael Portillo: "Crime is a scourge in a free society. But when privacy dies, the free society dies with it."
- ID Cards on Trial: Public loses faith over rising costs - "When asked if they support ID cards in the light of the government's revised cost of £93 per card, 43 per cent of respondents said the scheme is a bad or very bad idea."
- Rebels ready to face prison over ID cards - The Observer: Refuseniks will copy Australian tactics to foil scheme. Hundreds of thousands of people are set to defy the government by refusing to carry ID cards, despite the risk of imprisonment.
- WriteToThem.com - The quickest way to write to your MP.
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