Category Archives: NO2ID

What does Government think it knows about you?

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Phil

EU citizens, and others, are rightly concerned about the sources of data that Her Majesty’s Government will use to do data-matching as it decides who has residency, and who does not. In general, data quality across Government is terrible. Indeed, … Continue reading →

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Text of speech given at Rowntree’s Governance Seminar on The Database State, 22 October 2008

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Phil

I am posting this here, on 20/03/17, as I cannot find a copy elsewhere on the web. This is the text of a speech I gave while I was national coordinator of NO2ID at a CAOS (‘Combining All Our Strengths’) … Continue reading →

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Some memories of Caspar

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Phil

“Bullshit!” came the shout behind me. Caspar wasn’t about to let the former Home Secretary who had reintroduced ID cards to the UK for the first time since WWII get away with claiming a ‘Damascene conversion’ on personal privacy, even … Continue reading →

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The Four Horsemen of our rights Apocalypse

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Phil

Sam and I have been having a conversation, and this article (posted originally on disruptiveproactivity.com) was one of the results: The worst excesses of care.data’s mandate to collect and exploit your medical records are coming back, and the scheme’s descendants … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Phil

Here we go again. Last time I did this (blogging), I ended up coordinating a political campaign against ID cards and the database state for 6 years. I’ll upload the series of posts that led me to that when I … Continue reading →

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