tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290392432024-03-13T03:21:22.524-07:00Aberystwyth No2IDThe Aberystwyth No2ID group campaigns locally, and nationally though No2ID, against the introduction of ID cards and the National Identity Register in the UK: <a href=mailto:aberystwyth@no2id.net>aberystwyth@no2id.net</a>Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-42128645008978428072007-05-11T04:37:00.000-07:002007-05-11T04:45:05.902-07:00A good day to bury bad newsThe long awaited resignation was enough to shove this story off the front page:<br /><br /><a href=http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2077328,00.html target=grau>Cost of national ID card soars by £840m in six months</a> (Guardian)<br /><a href=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/11/nblair611.xml target=tele>And the bad news? ID cards cost £2bn more</a> (Telegraph)<br /><a href=http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39167085,00.htm target=sili>ID cards to cost more than £5.5bn</a> (Silicon.com)<br /><a href=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_headline=id-card-trick&method=full&objectid=19083874&siteid=89520-name_page.html target=mirr>ID Card trick</a> (Mirror)<br /><a href=http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2530792.ece target=indie>Reid accused of burying bad news</a>Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-53464204019175300522007-04-25T10:14:00.000-07:002007-04-25T10:20:17.251-07:00Safe in their hands?A firm of private investigators has been found guilty of selling personal information on 250 customers, obtained illegally from the Department for Work and Pensions.<br /><br /><blockquote><a href=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/24/dwp_pretexting/ target=regblag>The firm and its managing director, Nick Munroe, were convicted of 44 counts of unlawfully obtaining and selling personal information at Kingston Magistrates' Court and fined £3,200.</a></blockquote><br /><br />£3,200? For obtaining by deception and selling on the private details of 250 people? This is what your privacy is worth. <br /><br />If you are a first time passport applicant you will be interviewed, and your data placed on the National Identity Register from May this year. The NIR will be easy pickings for fellows like Nick Munroe. Register now to keep your data (relatively) safe for 10 more years.Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-29860894524288153272007-04-25T10:03:00.000-07:002007-04-25T10:13:48.715-07:00Not so cunning planI've received information that the interrogation centre here in Aber will be at Northgate House on Northgate Street. The council's [XLS]<a href=http://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/media/excel/e/e/excelweeklyapplications_1.xls>Planning Application Spreadsheet</a> shows an application (A070273) by Mapeley to affix condensing units to the building.<br /><br />Mapeley are of course the tax exiles who will be running the infrastructure for the interrogation centres.<br /><br /><blockquote><b>Passport offices deal won by Mapeley</b><br />The contract to set up a new network of passport offices has been won by Mapeley, the property company that bought the offices of the Inland Revenue in a controversial outsourcing deal five years ago. Mapeley will set up interrogation centres to be used for passport and ID card applications. The government sold Mapeley hundreds of Inland Revenue buildings which they now lease from them and will pay an estimated £2 billion in rent over the next 20 years. As reported extensively in Private Eye, Mapeley maximise their profits by using tax havens, thus depriving the Inland Revenue of yet more money.</blockquote><br /><a href=http://www.no2id.net/news/newsletters/newsletter.php?issue=41 target=newsletter>Source</a><br /><br />If anyone lives near to the proposed centre and feels able to lodge a planning appeal please let us know on <a href=mailto:aberystwyth@no2id.net?subject=Planning appeal>aberystwyth@no2id.net</a>.Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-19348838115689334802007-03-21T07:54:00.000-07:002007-03-21T07:55:36.421-07:00No2ID ID Day<a href="http://www.no2id.net/getInvolved/id-day.php"><img src="http://www.no2id.net/images/b/id-day.gif" alt="Show them you're not a number - ID-Day, 26th March 2007" style="width:351px;height:90px;border:0" /></a><br /><br />Send your photo for the big OptOut and get ready to make some wavesAuntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-25984017063185492272007-02-22T02:14:00.000-08:002007-02-22T02:25:13.020-08:00Tech Press RoundupIn recent days we've had Blair responding to the petitioners against ID cards via email, and several press statements clarifying the purpose of the National Identity register. Rather than being reassuring, these have caused greater consternation. Rather than being open engagements with a concerned public, these have been excercises in misrepresentation and obfurscation. Rather than being pacified, we at No2ID are more outraged than ever at the erosion of all our civil liberties.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/20/blair_fingerprint_suspects", target=reg>The Register</a> debunks the lie that there are 900,000 unsolved crimes waiting to be solved by the NIR. <a href="http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7849" target=ptech>Public Technology</a> reports that the Lib Dem MP Nick Clegg has tackled the government on why, despite assurances, the police will be able to use the register to "able to go on arbitrary fishing expeditions". He is still waiting for an answer.Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-53128257530207287122007-02-21T04:29:00.000-08:002007-02-21T04:37:45.707-08:00Steve Bell CartoonThe plans for the national ID card - an easy to follow guide:<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/steve_bell/2007/02/21/bell0221512.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/steve_bell/2007/02/21/bell0221512.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1168344107695003682007-01-09T03:59:00.000-08:002007-01-09T04:01:48.386-08:00Couldn't organise a p-iris up in a breweryPlans for the iris biometric <a href=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/09/government_drops_iris_scans_for_id_cards/ target=reg>have been shelved</a>. Proof, if proof were needed, that the Government has never had any real ideas about the technical or financial feasibility of its ID card proposals.Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1165143025713568632006-12-03T02:42:00.000-08:002006-12-03T02:50:26.006-08:00Piss off Patsy<a href=http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1962282,00.html target=patsyyoufucker>Patricia Hewitt wants to know who doesn't want her department to have access to their medical records</a>. Sir Liam Donaldson is the rotweiler that is putting the bite on GPs to release the names and addresses of those people who don't want their medical records putting on the national spine. So you can't ask for confidentiality on confidence!<br /><br />In the meantime the government is <a href=http://www.nhsconfidentiality.org/?p=27 target=opt2>handing over the names and addresses of patients to Mori so that they can send out questionnaires</a>. Anyone concerned aboout keeping visits to their GP confidential should email gppatientsurvey@dh.gsi.gov.uk with their name and NHS number before Friday the 8th. Another Public Service Announcement from Aberystwyth No2ID.Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1165008383503809932006-12-01T13:20:00.000-08:002006-12-03T02:52:25.783-08:00Send your GP a christmas cardOr at least send them the letter here:<br /><br /><a href=http://www.nhsconfidentiality.org/?cat=4 target=bigoptout>The Big Opt Out</a><br /><br />expressing your desire to not have your details added to the NHS spine. <br /><br />The latest Medix poll shows that 52% of GPs would not upload their patients' records to the spine, and only 13% would be willing to proceed without consent. An even more recent survey by JRRT shows that 53% of patients are opposed to automatic uploading of their records, with only 27% in favour.<br /><br />The text of the letter is as follows:<br /><br /><br /><br /><blockquote><br />Exercising right to opt out <br /><br />Dear Doctor,<br /><br />As you are probably aware, the Government is intending to ask you to transfer the electronic medical records of your patients onto a national database called the “spine”. They intend you to do this without first seeking the consent of your patients. It is BMA policy that patients should give their individual consent prior to their information being transferred on to the national database. <br /><br />There are substantial concerns about the privacy and confidentiality of information transferred onto the national database, not least because promised software security safeguards called “sealed envelopes” will not be in place and because the patient’s instructions with regard to who may access the records can be overridden. I do not believe that such a large database, with so many staff users, can be regarded as secure. <br /><br />I would be grateful if you would ensure that none of my records held by you are entered onto the national system. Would you please also file or scan a copy of this letter in my records and also record my dissent by entering the “Read code” - ‘93C3. - Refused consent for upload to national shared electronic record.’ into my computer record. I am aware of the implications of this request and will notify you should I change my mind.<br /><br />This request is itself confidential. Please do not divulge my decision, in an identifiable manner, to anyone other than to clinicians who are providing care to me and who might otherwise place information about me on the national care records service.<br /><br />Further information for GPs is available online at www.TheBigOptOut.org/?page_id=9<br /><br />Yours sincerely,<br /></blockquote><br /><br /><br />There are pdf, text and word versions you can customise and print.Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1164966202711008732006-12-01T01:41:00.000-08:002006-12-01T01:43:23.246-08:00Next MeetingTuesday December the 5th, 8pm, upstairs in the Cambrian Hotel (oppposite the station).Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1164792013146702482006-11-29T01:19:00.000-08:002006-11-29T01:20:24.426-08:00Suspect NationNot sure how long this will stay up on YouTube - catch it while you can.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aU2ahWGngGg"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aU2ahWGngGg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1164625625492515612006-11-27T03:06:00.000-08:002006-11-27T03:07:05.606-08:00E Petition against ID cardsThe <a href=http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/IDcards/ target=pet>e-petition against ID cards</a> on the 10 downing street website has broken the 4000 signatures mark. Only the Repeal the Hunting Bill petition has more. The scale of the opposition to the ID cards plan is being ignored by this high handed government. Head over there and sign it if you can. <br /><br />NB - the postcode details are only required to show that you live in the UK. I don't beleive that this is any better than asking folks to decalre that they are in the UK (it's not hard to find a UK address to use online). Nevertheless, this is how the website is set up - using a work address or somesuch may make you feel more comfortable!Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1164116974439482242006-11-21T05:49:00.000-08:002006-11-21T05:49:34.856-08:00No job without ID cardsThe Scotsman carries a worrying (but not unexpected) <a href=http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1985382005 target=scots>article</a> that was first published in 2005 but which has received strangely little follow-up from the media. Working for the Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS, Tesco, British Airways, BP, Lloyds TSB and Shell could become impossible without an ID card. The onus is now on a job applicant to provide an ID card (costing upwards of £100), to prove their entitlement to work. <br /><br /><br />This invidious move will keep many in the poverty trap. The up-front costs of applying for work such as travel to and from the interview, work clothes and the first months' travel and living expenses can make it difficult to reenter employment for the homeless or extremely poor. Charities provide some crisis funds to help people into work, but the cost of an ID card and travel to the interrogation centre will only add to the burden. On top of which (as I've stressed many times) it is those at the lowest end of the socioeconomic spectrum that are likely to have most difficulty obtaining ID cards as they are statistically more likely to have had frequent house moves and job changes. This ID cards scheme, as well as its other flaws, will be more regressive than any tax.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aQNxraShwnI"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aQNxraShwnI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1164061282107671782006-11-20T14:21:00.000-08:002006-11-20T14:21:22.760-08:00Henry Porter Doc on More4For those who have More4 the <a href=http://www.channel4.com/more4/documentaries/doc-feature.jsp?id=107 target=channel4>Henry Porter documentary</a> will be repeated on the 29th at 10pm. Well worth a watch - the last 15 minutes in particular were eyeopening - even for a cynic like me!<br /><br />For those who have seen the documentary, the extremely skilled cracker at the end was <a href=http://www.thebunker.net/security_shield/human_security/adam_laurie target=adlau>Adam Laurie</a> based <a href=http://www.thebunker.net/facilities/virtual_tour target=bunk>here</a>.Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1163503061243008592006-11-14T03:11:00.000-08:002006-11-14T03:26:13.633-08:00An appeal for help:Just had the following email from the No2ID national coordinator, Phil Booth. If you are willing to help with this then please reply directly to him, as detailed below. The more data we collect, the more likely we can show up the flaws in the "security" of your passport.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><br />Dear all,<br /><br />We need some help with some research that we are doing into passports. <br />Time is of the essence! <br /><br />I assume that at least some of you will have relatively new passports, having renewed at some point in or since May. Some may have chips in them, some will not. As we've said before, the information stored on the chip at present is no more than what you see on the photo page, plus (we can now confirm) up to 18 measurements that have been derived from a scan of your photo.<br /><br />What we are trying to determine is the sequence in which passports are issued, for a stunt that we hope to perform in the very near future. <br /><br />If you are willing to help, please e-mail me <a href="mailto:passports@no2id.net?subject=mrz">[passports@no2id.net - subject "mrz"]</a> with *just* the first FOUR digits of your 'MRZ number' - that is, the first four digits (reading from the left) of the bottom row of numbers on the photo page of your passport - plus the date your passport was issued, the office from which it was issued, and whether or not your passport has a chip in it. If more than one person in your family renewed their passport, we be very grateful for this data from each of you.<br /><br />Please DO NOT send any more than the above information. <span style="font-weight:bold;">We do not wish to compromise your privacy or the security of your passport in any way</span>, and what you will be sending is useless to anyone except for the specific problem that we are tackling.<br /><br />I do hope you can help us, sorry if this mail seems a bit mysterious - but all will become clear in a short while.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />Phil<br /><br />P.S. I'm sending this request to so many people that I'm afraid I'll be unable to respond to any other queries. If you have a new passport and are willing to share the data with us, please do. If you have any misgivings, or I have not explained things clearly enough, then just ignore this e-mail.<br /></blockquote>Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1162829388900349662006-11-06T08:08:00.000-08:002006-11-06T08:10:03.963-08:00Monthly meeting...... tomorrow (Tuesday the 7th), upstairs in the Cambrian at 8. See you there.Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1161866759043791272006-10-26T05:35:00.000-07:002006-10-26T05:45:59.656-07:00Coalition of the willingI though it was only the tin foil hat brigade that seriously believed that the NIR would be part of the architecture for a new world order. <a href=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/25/global_immigration_db/ target=new>I was wrong</a>. <br /><br />A telling quote:<br /><br />"'We would violate the privacy laws of individual countries if we shared data as we wanted to,' said Potter [Troy Potter, biometrics programme manager for the US Department of Homeland Security's biometric border control programme]."<br /><br />We already know this - given the <a href=http://www.epic.org/privacy/intl/passenger_data.html target=uspd>illegal requests for data about airline passengers</a> that the US immigration service insist are necessary.<br /><br />Porter went on to say: "The last thing we want is for someone who has changed their ways and then we keep harassing them." What - by <a href=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,409137,00.html target=obs>illegally disenfranchising</a> them?<br /><br />Too folorn to take this story fully apart right now. I may return to it when the disbelief and dispondency clear up.Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1161699596090472582006-10-24T07:18:00.000-07:002006-10-24T07:19:56.736-07:00From the Reg<a href=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/23/smart_chips_for_smart_crooks/ target=reg>This</a> makes worrying reading for anyone with an RFID passport. Tin foil passport wallets on!Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1160403247313558772006-10-09T07:13:00.000-07:002006-10-09T07:30:20.516-07:00They "misunderestimate" againPress hooha today over the latest government "figures" for the ID card project. The latest estimate comes in at <a href=http://www.guardian.co.uk/idcards/story/0,,1891248,00.html target=grau>£5.4 billion</a> - far short of the £19 billion suggested by the independent study carried out at the London School of Economics.<br /><br />Trebles all round? Perhaps not. It looks as though there have been a few oversights in coming up with this figure. For a start, 70% is pledged to the rollout of "next generation" passports. Not the cards, just the passports. How much is the rollout of the cards, card readers, face scanners and fringerprint readers going to cost? Apparently not more than 30% of £5.4 billion.<br /><br />But wait - it's worse: another 15% is budgeted for the IT costs. That's just £8.1 billion in IT costs. Compare this to the <a href=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1884919,00.html target=obs>£12.4 billion already spent on the NHS IT fiasco</a>, not to mention the £15 to £20 billion it is estimated will be required to make the NHS system workable. The Government just can't seem to get IT projects right (see entries on this blog <it>passim</it>). The identity register will be no more straighforward than the NHS project, with plans to <a href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5342718.stm target=bbc>share data throughout all Government departments</a>.<br /><br />So that's only £8.1 billion left over for all of the other costs - rolling out the plastic, the readers, the scanners, the manpower, the cost of chasing conscientious objectors (of whom there will be at least <a href=http://www.pledgebank.com/refuse target=pledgebank>11,365</a>). And the up-front costs of consultants, advisors, PR agencies and feasibility studies are already eating into this at a rate of <a href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5168524.stm target=bbc2>£63,000 per <b>day</b></a>.<br /><br />Look again at the <a href=http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pressAndInformationOffice/newsAndEvents/archives/2005/IDCard_FinalReport.htm traget=lse> report by the LSE</a>. Whose figures look more credible?Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1160071513053270902006-10-05T11:04:00.000-07:002006-10-05T11:05:33.506-07:00Shilling for da man...Sorry to do this - I know this site isn't fantastically "monetizable" but any advertising link you click on will help raise money to buy posters and flyers. It's better than hanging 'round town with a collecting tin. Also, if you follow one of the firefox links from this site and install the software in question, that also raises money. I can strongly recommend Firefox - it <it>is</it> better and more secure than IE. Google pack has popup and spyware killing tools and Picasa looks a lot like iPhoto - so download it only if you aren't lucky enough to have a Mac!<br /><br />I promise the ads will go when we have enough money to buy some posters/leaflets. For reference - the ones we're after are <a href=http://www.no2id.net/downloads/TakeJane.pdf>this</a> and <a href=http://www.no2id.net/downloads/DatabaseMan.pdf>this</a>. If you're a generous printer prepared to give good rates on A5 leaflets in return for a big shout out on the blog (indeed, even a permanent advert!) then please email aberystwyth@no2id.net.<br /><br />The processing centre is opening soon. When it does, the database will have us all no matter what the Tories or Lib Dems may do. Help us stop it before it is too late.Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1159964295915454382006-10-04T04:58:00.000-07:002006-10-04T05:18:16.580-07:00How democracy worksThe conservative party conference has thrown up some interesting position statements on ID cards. Pauline Neville Jones, head of the Tories' policy group on national and international security thinks that <a href=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/10/03/do0302.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/10/03/ixopinion.html target=telegraph>the Conservatives should back the cards in principle</a>. Nevertheless, Cameron has decided to <a href=http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2165522/cameron-promises-scrap-identity target=scrap> follow the lead of David Davis</a> and to pledge to scrap ID cards if the party comes to power before the scheme has been introduced.<br /><br />In Pakistan, ID cards are already in existence and are being used to systematically erode <a href=http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-india_pakistan/democracy_3945.jsp target=pakistan>support for Benazir Bhutto</a>. I'm not sure that Musharraf has party conferences.Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1159963015462333632006-10-04T04:55:00.000-07:002006-10-04T04:57:17.306-07:00Meeting ApologiesFor those of you who tried to find us in the Varsity - their decision to hold a pound night threw a spanner in the works royally - I <it>promise</it> to find us a better venue for November.Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1159919705421100692006-10-03T16:34:00.000-07:002006-10-03T16:55:05.706-07:00Who do you trust with your data?My landlady is lovely. I've only really spoken to her about four times but she's very nice: solicitous of my welfare and keen to fix any problems with the flat. However - I have rented from some right sod in the past, including one chap who was using our (student) house as a mailing address to commit housing benefit fraud from. Would I trust him to have access to the details on my ID card? According to the IPS I might <a href=http://www.identitycards.gov.uk/how-organisations.asp target=landloard>have to</a>. And the kid behind the counter in Blockbusters. And "Retailers of all kinds, including Internet companies".<br /><br />But the real sting in the tail is this - according to section 9 of <a href=http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2006/60015--b.htm target=ICAb>Schedule 1 of the Identity Cards act</a>:<br /><br />"The following may be recorded in the entry in the Register for an individual-<br /> <br />(a) particulars of every occasion on which information contained in the individual's entry has been provided to a person;<br /><br />(b) particulars of every person to whom such information has been provided on such an occasion;<br /><br />(c) other particulars, in relation to each such occasion, of the provision of the information."<br /><br />Renting a house because you've left an abusive spouse or parent? It's on the register. Renting videos that, unbeknownst to you, have been pirated? It's on the register. Paid for information about a medical condition, or bought something to spice up your marriage online? It's on the register.<br /><br /><br />With a huge <a href=http://www.identitycards.gov.uk/InterviewOffices/careers_officerManager.asp target=jobs>recruitment campaign to staff the 69 new "processing centres"</a> it is inevitable that some less than savoury folks will get jobs. Security clearances will pick up those with existing criminal records, but not the abusive spouses, stalkers or those that can be <a href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/3951945.stm target=git>induced to sell or give away information</a> who will be applying for these jobs. And even those who are model employees, acting in the best of faith, can still end up <a href=http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=369838&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=&ct=5 target=dvla> handing your data over to criminals and extortionists.</a><br /><br />Hand on heart - who <it>do</it> you trust with your information? Because as much as I like my landlady, there are things I don't even tell her.Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1159734498835750512006-10-01T13:25:00.000-07:002006-10-01T13:28:19.403-07:00Next MeetingThis Tuesday (3rd October), upstairs in the Varsity at 8pm. We'll be planning the next phase in the v-petition project, and publicity events for the opening of the new, aberystwyth-based "processing centre". Free badges! All welcome!Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29039243.post-1159351776622453382006-09-27T03:05:00.000-07:002006-09-27T03:09:38.480-07:00Feeling a little fresher?Student Vols Dan and Arwel are up at the Uni today handing out leaflets and some of our ace new badges. The idea is to get enough signatures to set up a "Students against ID" chapter - which would be affiliated to Aberystwyth No2ID but which can autonomously run student centered events like film nights, debates and so on. Look out for them - and pick yourself up a badge whilst you're at it!<br /><br />They'll also be working on our surprise new project... no details as yet but if you do happen to see them up at the arts centre, you may get your chance at 15 seconds of fame!Auntie Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05042427357649111620noreply@blogger.com0