Your correspondent N E Gough is quite right to repeat warnings of the surveillance state.
The DNA database, CCTV cameras, fingerprinting of children all roll up into a dire prediction of what's to come with the National Identity Register. The NIR will record all our personal details, number us and track us.
Starting next year first time passport applicants will be forced onto the Identity Register, despite Anne Snelgrove's assertion that the Identity Register is voluntary. It will not be, if you want a passport you will be entered on the central register. NO2ID is pledged to resist the National Identity Register and it's attendant ID card. Anne Snelgrove and seems resolute in her defence of this dangerous law.
To her and to Michael Wills I say, at what point do you set the acceptable cost of this law - will it be when a (wo)man fleeing domestic violence is tracked down via the register, is when one's identity (all of it, not merely one's bank record) is stolen or is it when council tax is exponentially increased to pay for software infrastructures to allow one to use the leisure centres?
What is the limit?
L Warren.
Swindon NO2ID.
Broad Town
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