Det er ikke bare i USA (Patriot Act) at yttringsfriheten og privatlivet er under angrep!
An anti-Iraq war protester was questioned by police outside Downing Street because she was reading The Independent.
Charity Sweet, 40, and a mother-of-three, was holding a copy of Thursday’s edition which carried the headline: “Warning: if you read this newspaper you may be arrested under the Government’s anti-terror laws.”
- Police hold mother-of-three for reading ‘Independent’ outside Downing Street, The Independent 15. juli 2006
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The idea of the ID card seems sensible in the age of terrorism, identity theft, and illegal immigration until you realise that the centralised database - the National Identity Register - will log and store details of every important action in a person’s life. When the ID card is swiped as someone identifies himself at, say, a bank, hospital, pharmacy, or insurance company, those details are retained and may be inspected by, among others, the police, tax authorities, customs, and MI5, the domestic intelligence service. The system will locate and track the entire adult population. If you put it together with the national system of licence-plate-recognition cameras, which is about to go live on British highways and in town centres, and understand that the ID card, under a new regulation, will also carry details of a person’s medical records, you realise that the state will be able to keep tabs on anyone it chooses and find out about the most private parts of a person’s life.
Despite the cost of the ID card system - estimated by the Government as being about £5.8bn and by the London School of Economics as being between £10bn and £19bn - few think that it will attack the problems of terrorism and ID theft.
George Churchill-Coleman described it to me as an absolute waste of time. “You and I will carry them because we are upright citizens. But a terrorist isn’t going to carry [his own]. He will be carrying yours.”
- Blair laid bare: the article that may get you arrested, The Independent 14. juli 2006
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