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Stop ID cards!

The Home Office is currently holding a public consultation on its ID card proposals. Their estimate of the cost implementing these plans is £3 billion - at least. Independent estimates are double that amount.

Do we seriously believe that the government can set up & run an identity database of 60 million people successfully? And keep it accurate, and keep our personal information secure?

Think of the bureaucracy – having to inform the government everytime you moved house, for example (and if you failed to inform them, you would be facing a £1,000 fine, under the proposed legislation). Think of the hassle when you lose the card.

Our privacy & civil liberties will be seriously compromised. Why should we put all this power & information into government hands? They are elected by us & are accountable to us, we are not their property to be tagged & monitored.

Millions of people are opposed to the proposed ID cards – let's stop the ID cards bill NOW, by making sure that the government cannot ignore our opposition.

Have your say:

Email: identitycards@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
(Put "consultation response" in the Subject line)
Fax: 020 7035 5386
Write to: Robin Woodland, Legislation Consultant, Identity Cards Programme, Home Office, 3rd Floor, Allington Towers, 19 Allington Street, London SW1E 5EB

DEADLINE IS 20th July 2004

Raise awareness:

Encourage others to take part in the consultation
- print & distribute our 'Stop ID cards!' leaflet
(it's a 2 page Word document, that you can print onto both sides of an A4 sheet & fold over to create a 4-page pamphlet)

The text of the leaflet is abridged, with the author's permission, from Trevor Mendham's well-argued website: The Case Against UK ID Cards

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