ARE you waking up to the surveillance society? Recent media coverage reveals just the tip of the iceberg; the database state that threatens us all.

Plans just revealed include intimate questions on your personal life in the next census. Fail to answer and you'll be fined £1,000.

Under similar threats, most UK properties will have every detail catalogued by a tax inspector visiting with a camera. There are plans for wide-ranging databases on all our children, not just those at risk. And Big Brother Blair would like everyone's DNA to be held on a criminal database.

The Government presses is planning to make everyone over 16 be fingerprinted like a criminal, answer personal questions based on detailed background checks, then be charged for the issue of an ID card. One such office will be opening shortly in Swindon.

Every time you use the card or its number, your movements will be tracked on the national ID database.

I hope fellow Adver readers will join NO2ID in calling upon Anne Snelgrove and Michael Wills to ask their Government to drop these intrusive and dangerous plans. The database state will not only divert billions from essential public services, but could cost us our very freedoms. I don't want my children and grandchildren to live under a regime similar to the one my father and grandfather fought to destroy and it would seem I am not alone.

G REID (no2id-swindon@talkswindon.org) The Prinnels, Swindon