Will ID cards prevent fraud and tackle terrorism?
Or are they the most dangerous threat to society and a scandalous waste of money?
The ID Card Debate: farewell to liberty?
Andrew Burnham Home Office minister and champion of ID cards.
vs
Peter Tatchell Human rights campaigner and critic of the government scheme.
A US presidential-style, one-to-one, eyeball-to-eyeball debate.
Tuesday 6 December, 7pm at the Quality Hotel, West Street, Brighton.
Entrance free.
Organised by Brighton & Hove NO2ID www.no2id.net Sponsored by Brighton & Hove UNISON
For more details contact brighton@no2id.net
I'm not really sure what that comment is about.
ReplyDeleteDoes Britain have an AFIS, or a DNA sex offender's DNA data bank?
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(AFIS=Automated Fingerprint Identification System.)
Just curious...seems that the Americans are solving cold cases like crazy since they brought theirs in.
We have a fingerprint bank and DNA bank of everyone who's ever been arrested, and the ID scheme is planning to expand the fingerprints to everyone. I assume matching would be automated.
ReplyDeleteWhen you say solving cold cases, do you mean finding a suspect and thence some other evidence, or are people being convicted solely on the basis of these systems? The latter is very worrying. However, given a recent US state throwing out a breathalyzer case on the grounds that the software was closed source and not examinable in court, things could get interesting.
Sorry, I mean "everyone arrested since PACE 2001": http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/sep/03uk-dna-database.htm
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the debate.
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