CR Linefeed

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted something here, but I have been quite busy since Christmas. A week off work with a nasty dose of flu and then my transformation in the last week into all-round media man. Yes, my organisation of a barbeque to mark the opening of Oxford’s Identity [...]

Not content with posting to 3 blogs that I administer, plus the one at work, I now have an article at Blindside, a site which looks at things that could go wrong in our increasingly digital world (mainly from a public sector view point). It is the dark sister site of Ideal Government. [...]

I’ve just been at a public meeting of the Oxford branch of NO2ID, where a couple of MPs spoke about why they are opposed to the legislation. Before the event began a bunch of us in the office were having a database related discussion on the National Identity Register (NIR). We came up with ways [...]

East Germany. A country where you can be detained without trial or stripped of your rights on the word of a government official. A country where they open a file on every citizen and track their every move. A country run by an authoritarian, supposedly left-wing government.
But hey, don’t worry about that, [...]

I think that the UK Government’s idea of a compulsory ID card and associated giant identity database is dreadful idea. There can be no doubt that it is an invasion of privacy and curtailment of freedom. In effect, you’ll have to register with the government for the right to exist. Otherwise, you’ll [...]