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Comment by chris brooke on December 28, 2010 at 11:39am

Stan. you are so right- as a public servant i am only too aware of the limitations of the FOI act and its hypocrisy and i suppose its fear -and i am aware as to how much information we do have on individuals -  and how tangled the web is if one wants information about onerself- question Stan what is the strategy you envisage to tackle this dreadful erosion of freedom

Comment by Philip Geoffrey Thompson on December 28, 2010 at 10:11am

Information is power.Who should have it and how much? If we lived in Russia or China we may think this is a different question. It is the same here. Changes mean that the information and controllers change. All we have to do, is something about it. It is not a luxury but it is something we have that is not available in all countiries without paying a very different price.

Comment by chris brooke on December 28, 2010 at 9:45am

i wish to join your group as it is frightening as to how much information is available and how easy that information is obtainable,

Comment by Philip Geoffrey Thompson on December 5, 2010 at 12:50pm

I am a member of NO2ID and when young used to think all policeman were like Dixon of Dock Green. I then had my suspicions that they were in fact normal human beings subject to the temptations of power. This was confirmed when I as breathalised after driving a car and they said thy had checked my car, traced me through friends in the middle of the night (3pm) to say the engine was still hot from my driving it. Unfortunately for them I had two cars and the one they had checked had not been moved by me that day, (the hand brake had been releasd on a hill) so they lied to try and incriminate me. They were bit red faced to find I was tea total at the time and lived in the house of a couple of police from a neighbouring police authority, who were not happy to woken up at 3pm by some incompetant liars. I takes all sorts..

Comment by Adam Wood on August 7, 2010 at 3:38pm

This just in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-10887082

"A £235m government database containing the records of England's 11 million children has been switched off."

What timing.. :)

Comment by Adam Wood on August 7, 2010 at 3:06pm

Well then, looks like it WAS related! If I found out someone had done such a check on me, without my knowledge, even though it comes back clean, I'd be VERY annoyed.. It's not just that people are delving into my life, and a potential past (the past can't change, but the person can), but it also that I'd feel like I'm not trusted..

Comment by Dave Page on August 7, 2010 at 2:55pm

Adam, ContactPoint is one of the Database State initiatives against which No2ID has campaigned. See http://www.no2id.net/dbstate for a larger list - but bear in mind that there are literally hundreds of centralising database, most of which we're not even fully aware of yet.

Comment by Adam Wood on August 7, 2010 at 2:48pm

Not sure this is totally related, but it's still a matter of privacy invasion: http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/more-than-60-children-saved-from-...

I wasn't even AWARE of this law!

Comment by Christopher James Heyworth on May 27, 2010 at 2:20pm

An announcement is fine as far as it goes, but we shall have to NAG, and NAG and NAG daily until the legislation to bin the scheme has been passed - campaigning is not always just street demos or even forceful websites.

Comment by Rebekah Gronowski on May 27, 2010 at 12:06pm

I am so pleased that we achieved what we set out to do! ID Cards are not going to be introduced!

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