+ PATRONISING HYPE FOR ID SCHEME +

The UK Identity and Passport Service (UK-IPS) will unveil a marketing
campaign for its ID scheme tomorrow (Friday 25th September) based on
animated fingerprint characters. The Home Office is propagandising
*businesses* rather than the general public in an attempt to give the
impression that the ID scheme is moving forwards whilst in reality
nothing much is actually happening. read full story / add a comment

CLAUSE 152 - DEAD, BUT NOT QUITE BURIED... and more... read full story / add a comment

The Convention on Modern Liberty is taking place in London on Saturday, 28th February [1]. But there may be an event closer to you than London - and you won't have to splash out for a ticket to attend! Bristol's will be Set up by NO2ID contact bristol@modernliberty.net and http://www.modernliberty.net read full story / add a comment

NO2ID News No. 116

5 February 2009 read full story / add a comment

NO2ID has been warning since 2006/7 about the stated intentions of government "to overcome current barriers to information sharing within the public sector" [1]. Now the Ministry of Justice has launched an extraordinary coup. It is about to convert the Data Protection Act into its exact opposite, a means for any government department to obtain and use any information however it likes. read full story / add a comment

NO2ID News No. 113

18 December 2008
+ MESSAGE FROM NO2ID'S NATIONAL COORDINATOR + and more.... read full story / add a comment

The Coroners and Justice Bill, announced in yesterday's Queen's Speech will contain extraordinary new data-sharing powers which could be exercised without Parliamentary debate - Find out more! read full story / add a comment

no2id newsletter no.111 with local SW group links and news! read full story / add a comment

+ 2nd November - Pylmouth NO2ID Meeting (1st Sunday of month) + read full story / add a comment

ePassport hacked, and groups all over Europe will be taking part in events to protest about the growing Database/Surveillance State and more. read full story / add a comment

Bristol NO2ID meeting read full story / add a comment

Desperate to shore up support for the ID scheme, the Home Secretary this week brandished a new plastic card to be issued to some foreign residents from November, calling it an "ID card" for foreign nationals. This cynical branding exercise with its sly appeal to xenophobia should fool no-one....read on.. read full story / add a comment

Trades Union Congress (TUC) voted at their Congress in Brighton to resist the National ID scheme with all means at its disposal, "including consideration of legal action to uphold civil liberties" and more news, including Bristol meeting info. read full story / add a comment

3rd September - Bristol NO2ID meeting read full story / add a comment

With party conferences* imminent, the database state is higher than ever on the political agenda - due in no small part to NO2ID and its supporters (YOU!) working hard to raise awareness locally and nationally. But the battle is intensifying. - plus bristol meeting. read full story / add a comment

Say no to the Database state. read full story / add a comment

NO2ID News No. 103

31 July 2008
"The government claimed this week that "the unions have backed ID cards". The declaration came after Labour’s National Policy Forum held at the University of Warwick. However we'd like to know precisely what that "backing" consists of." read full story / add a comment

Wednesday, 6th August 7-8pm at White Bear on St Michael's Hill. read full story / add a comment

No2ID News Update; David Davis election and Bristol Meeting and more. read full story / add a comment

14 leading figures in the UK aviation industry have spoken out against the ID scheme. In a strongly worded letter to the Home Secretary, they express their "determined opposition" and highlight that enrolment on the National ID Scheme will provide "no additional security" - indeed it risks creating a "false sense of security"....and more news... read full story / add a comment