Am I wanted by the Police ? , Have I committed a crime ?
Well if the Govt gets it’s way pretty soon I’ll find out when they roll out these Biometric ID Card’s, as it seems that the finger print I provide as part of the Identity card will be scrutinised by Police forces up and down the country in a bid to discover if I’ve committed any crime, seems a bit to much like 1984 for my liking, OK fair enough say I have committed a crime, of course I deserve to get caught arrested for it, but I just don’t like the idea of my fingerprints being on a database somewhere that god only knows who has access to it, suppose I decide to become an activist of some sort and cause the Govt grief in some way or another, but never breaking the law when I do it, I become a thorn in somebody’s side who wants me shut up, whats to stop some Govt body using the DNA/Fingerprint information they have stored about me in setting me up for something I have’nt done, who’s going to believe me when there’s DNA/fingerprint evidence saying i was there I did it . . this may sound a little far fetched, but it was’nt so long ago that Police Forces countrywide were setting up innocents with dodgy evidence, but at least then they didn’t have your Biometric data at hand to use against you.
I’m not saying don’t have Biometric ID cards I’m just saying who’s watchs the watchmen !
Something else I’m not happy with at the moment is the amount of data the Govt/Police can intercept, there was an article in one of the papers today which stated that in just a 1 year period last year over 1/2 million phone and email intercepts were initiated by either Govt bodies or the Police and over 4000 of those were classed as error’s, in other words over 4000 people either had their Phone’s tapped or their emails intercepted and read, don’t know about you but I are’nt keen on these same bodies reading/hearing what I have to say, even if it is a mistake.
The fact that there are over 1/2 million people having their phone/emails watched worries me, does this mean there are over 1/2 million possible terrorist/gangsters in the UK who regularly communicate via email, arranging Robberies/Terrorists attack, because if there are I’m going to start avoiding Banks/Bus’s/Train’s/Tourist traps in case someone is emailing there partners in crime details of when there going to Rob/blow them up.
Since the start of this War on Terror that the western world (well the UK and the USA anyways) has started to fight, its not the Terrorists who are having there journeys hampered, there movements watched, put under survielance, it’s us . . what next I wonder in this War on Terror, maybe they’ll introdue BioChips for humans, have them inserted under every citizen’s skin so ther nice Police man can scan you and get all the info he wants about you from his handy little Database in Whitehall
I also read in one of the papers this week that the Gov’t will be able to find out everything about you,ie where you go on holiday, what you eat, what cd’s you listen to, and much more, just think about it, all those loyalty store cards you use – Tesco’s for example have a data base on your spending habits and know exactly what you have bought and when you bought it and from that they can summise what you eat, listen to etc. Credit cards will also have a similar database on what you buy and where you buy it from etc. Now just stand back a minute to get the whole picture. Put all those databases into one big enormous database and what have you got!!!! One hell of a lot of information about you. Scarey ain’t it. In the wrong hands , even scarier. We all have these loyalty cards whether it be Nectar, Tesco’s or Sainsbury’s, Top Shop etc to Credit and Debit Cards. etc
Seems in today’s papers (The Times) there’s an article on about exactly what I feared, the manipulation/errors of DNA evidence, seems that a number of theft/murder/rapes cases are going to have to be reviewed due to either inaccurate or tampered DNA evidence, seems a few of these are quite high profile case’s, just shows that no matter how good the evidence may seem it can still be wrong, either through mistakes or tampering, so god help us if ID cards do get the go ahead
Maybe we should all just sail along and accept that biometrics is going to change all our lives.
Not me I’d rather be dragged along, just don’t like the idea of someone other then my Doctor knowing this sort of stuff about me..