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ID cards: NO2ID: ID scheme reminscent of Big Brother

Politics.co.uk | February 14 2006

Anti-ID card campaign group NO2ID has said it was outraged at the outcome of yesterday's Commons vote, which obliges citizens to apply for an ID card when they renew passports.

The group said this was "a convenient loophole", where "90 per cent of people" would, over time, be forced to leave details on a national database and pay for an ID card.

National coordinator Phil Booth said: "New Labour's definition of civil liberties seems to have been written by Big Brother - or perhaps Alice through the Looking Glass.

"This is a strange land where 'voluntary' means no choice, 'privacy' means detailed personal information shared across government, and 'freedom' is submitting to lifelong surveillance."

He accused the government of deceiving the public, the press and bludgeoning "its own back benchers into going along with the deceptions".

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