anthonyqkiernan
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A 21st Century Poll Tax?
Mar 25, 2003, 13:33
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From BBC Scotland:
"Labour plans 'ID cards'
Labour will introduce identity cards for all Scots should they form a government after the Scottish Parliament elections, it has emerged.
Party bosses will include plans for the so-called 'entitlement cards', which would be used for everything from renting library books to claiming benefits, in their election manifesto.
A pre-manifesto document going through the party's policy process says "we will introduce a national electronic entitlement card for all public services".
The move has been questioned by civil liberties groups, who believe it could infringe people's human rights. "
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Vybik Jon
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Re: A 21st Century Poll Tax?
Mar 25, 2003, 13:40
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Let's hope not/let's hope so.
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CraigR
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Re: A 21st Century Poll Tax?
Mar 26, 2003, 13:03
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If you drive you already have an identity card. I have struggled to see anything sinister in this issue for some time. By sinister, I mean genuine and real monitoring issues.
Are we so Paranoid?
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Rhiannon
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Re: A 21st Century Poll Tax?
Mar 26, 2003, 13:44
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You don't have to have your driving license on you at all times in case the police want to look at it though.
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RiotGibbon
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Re: A 21st Century Poll Tax?
Mar 26, 2003, 13:50
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it's not the card itslef that's the problem (if it was going to be used by the Police, then they would be expected to cough up for it, and that's not going to happen), it's the database(s) behind it
in a nutshell, wrong information can be cross-matched more easily, and who owns/controls the information once it has been gathered
wierdly enough, I actually write these sort of smartcard/database systems for a living, and I reckon a national system is a Bad Idea/Total Disaster In The Making ....
RG
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Rhiannon
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Re: A 21st Century Poll Tax?
Mar 27, 2003, 09:35
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On a similar line, on R4 this morning they were discussing how they want to keep dna samples from people who've been arrested even if they consequently end up being charged with nothing. A number which would soon mount up. The interviewee refused to admit it amounted to an erosion of civil liberties but was forced into a corner to concede it was part of ';balancing up' advantages and disadvantages of (waffle and bluster here).
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