WHAT WE STAND FOR

NO2ID is a campaigning organisation. We are a single-issue group focussed on the threat to liberty and privacy posed by the rapid growth of the database state, of which "ID cards" are the most visible part. We are entirely independent. We do not endorse any party, nor campaign on any other topic.

We aim to publicise the case against state identity management among the general public, in the media, and at every level in government. NO2ID's members are from all sorts of backgrounds and hold all sorts of opinions on other questions. They almost certainly include people much like you. Please support us.

Thanks to everyone who sent in a picture of the database state for The Big Picture on Parliament Square. You'll find a report of the protest with more pictures on the Open Rights Group website. Click on the image to see a higher-resolution version of The Big Picture mosaic.

NO2ID comment:

A LIFETIME OF ID CONTROL - AT A PRICE

After years of little more than hot air from a sequence of Home Secretaries, we're finally getting to see the fine detail [836KB PDF] of what "ID cards" will really mean to the average person. It may be quite a shock to those who haven't been paying attention.

It is not just the sheer amount of personal information that you will be required to surrender – a wake-up for any remaining who thought this was a simple card - it is the threats that will be used to force compliance. You could have £1000 penalties sent to you by e-mail* if IPS thinks you've been bad – and why might they think that?

If you fail to turn up at a time and place of their choosing; refuse to be fingerprinted, photographed or hand over documents (e.g. birth or marriage certificates); fail to tell them you've moved house for 3 months.

And anything that they reckon is "deliberate or reckless" provision of incorrect information could lead to 2 years in prison.

Welcome to a lifetime of state identity control...

* Only the first official warning need be by letter, and that'll give you just a fortnight to comply.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT 'ID CARDS'

There's a lot of confusion about the government's proposed national identity scheme, and it doesn't help that the Home Office often gives misleading information.

Our summary of the scheme is here.

Answers to selected Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are here.

The 'database state' is what we call the tendency to try to use computers to manage society by watching people. There are many interlocking government plans that do this. Together they mean officials poking into your private life more than ever before.

The list of database state initiatives on which NO2ID is campaigning, along with a wide range of other organisations is here.

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