matt_user
27-01-2009, 12:49 PM
I Got This Emailed At College Today Very Good Material For David Icke Fan's
From: *****
Reply: *****@*****-6-form.ac.uk
Hi everyone.
The government has a proposed piece of legislation called the Justice and Coroners Bill, part of which proposes to completely eradicate privacy of personal information, meaning that ministers can make “Information Sharing Orders” with the power to cancel all rights to confidentiality and allow pretty much any data about anyone to be obtained.
If you care at all about your right to personal privacy please read the following and write to Robert Goodwill to ask him to oppose this. The first debate on the new bill is today (Monday 26th) and it could be passed within a matter of days or weeks, without even debate about the particular section, if we don’t make something happen. Please, do this and pass the message on to anybody else you can find, or this could be the latest major step towards the intrusive database state that ends up being like 1984.
Here's an urgent message from NO2ID central office.
The government is trying to remove all limits on the use of our
private information by officials. This means taking your information
from anywhere and passing it anywhere they like - including medical
records, financial records, communications data, ID information.
The Database State is now a direct threat, not a theory.
Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill, due for its first debate
in the Commons on Monday 26th January, would convert the Data
Protection Act into its exact opposite. It would allow ministers to
make 'Information Sharing Orders’, which can alter any Act of
Parliament and cancel all rules of confidentiality in order to allow
information obtained for one purpose to be used for another.
This single clause is as grave a threat to privacy as the entire ID Scheme.
Combine it with the index to your life formed by the planned National
Identity Register and everything recorded about you anywhere could be
accessible to any official body.
Quite apart from the powers in the Identity Cards Act, if Information
Sharing Orders come to pass, they could (for example) immediately be
used to suck up material such as tax records or electoral registers
to build an early version of the National Identity Register.
But the powers would apply to any information, not just official
information. They would permit data trafficking between government
agencies and private companies - and even with foreign governments.
THIS IS WHY WE MUST ACT NOW!
We need you to do three things:
1) Please ask everyone in your group and/or on your mailing list to
write straight away IN THEIR OWN WORDS to their MP via
http://www.WriteToThem.com - do it this
weekend, if not before. The Bill is being rushed through Parliament,
even as we write.
Get everyone to ask their MP to read Part 8 (clauses 151 - 154) of
the Coroners and Justice Bill, and to oppose the massive enabling
powers in the "Information sharing" clause. The Bill contains a
number of controversial provisions, but to the casual reader it
appears mainly to be about reforming inquests and sentencing. It is
due its Second Reading in the Commons on 26th January 2009.
Request your MP demand that the clause be given proper Parliamentary
scrutiny. This is something that will affect every single one of
their constituents, unlike the rest of the Bill. There is a grave
danger that the government will set a timetable that will cut off
debate before these proposals - which are at the end of the Bill -
are discussed.
2) Write letters to your local papers. Also, put out a group press
release saying you have written to your local MP (once you have!) and
pointing out that this will affect every one of his or her
constituents. Highlight the fact that the information sharing powers
in this Bill are overwhelmingly unpopular.
A YouGov poll in the Sunday Times on 18th January (details
here:
http://forum.no2id.net/viewtopic.php?p=100808)
shows that the public opposes these new powers by a factor of 3 to 1
*against* - 65% of people asked said they would give government
"too much power", only 19% thought not.
The government can't pretend a popular mandate for what it is doing.
And it is a mechanism designed to by-pass Parliament in future. It is
being done only for the convenience of the bureaucrats.
3) Tell as many people and other groups (local political parties,
union branches, the WI, churches, mosques, temples, etc.) as you can.
And find out more yourself. We have created a new page on the website
dedicated to 'data sharing' which contains links to the key documents
and a brief explanation of each.
Please read it, and pass on this link:
http://www.no2id.net/datasharing.php
Let your friends, family, colleagues and anyone who might share our
concerns know that the battle for their privacy is happening NOW. The
more people we reach, the more we hope will act.
We really can't afford not to win. Good luck!
*********** and ***********
NO2ID Local Groups Coordinator NO2ID National Coordinator
From: *****
Reply: *****@*****-6-form.ac.uk
Hi everyone.
The government has a proposed piece of legislation called the Justice and Coroners Bill, part of which proposes to completely eradicate privacy of personal information, meaning that ministers can make “Information Sharing Orders” with the power to cancel all rights to confidentiality and allow pretty much any data about anyone to be obtained.
If you care at all about your right to personal privacy please read the following and write to Robert Goodwill to ask him to oppose this. The first debate on the new bill is today (Monday 26th) and it could be passed within a matter of days or weeks, without even debate about the particular section, if we don’t make something happen. Please, do this and pass the message on to anybody else you can find, or this could be the latest major step towards the intrusive database state that ends up being like 1984.
Here's an urgent message from NO2ID central office.
The government is trying to remove all limits on the use of our
private information by officials. This means taking your information
from anywhere and passing it anywhere they like - including medical
records, financial records, communications data, ID information.
The Database State is now a direct threat, not a theory.
Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill, due for its first debate
in the Commons on Monday 26th January, would convert the Data
Protection Act into its exact opposite. It would allow ministers to
make 'Information Sharing Orders’, which can alter any Act of
Parliament and cancel all rules of confidentiality in order to allow
information obtained for one purpose to be used for another.
This single clause is as grave a threat to privacy as the entire ID Scheme.
Combine it with the index to your life formed by the planned National
Identity Register and everything recorded about you anywhere could be
accessible to any official body.
Quite apart from the powers in the Identity Cards Act, if Information
Sharing Orders come to pass, they could (for example) immediately be
used to suck up material such as tax records or electoral registers
to build an early version of the National Identity Register.
But the powers would apply to any information, not just official
information. They would permit data trafficking between government
agencies and private companies - and even with foreign governments.
THIS IS WHY WE MUST ACT NOW!
We need you to do three things:
1) Please ask everyone in your group and/or on your mailing list to
write straight away IN THEIR OWN WORDS to their MP via
http://www.WriteToThem.com - do it this
weekend, if not before. The Bill is being rushed through Parliament,
even as we write.
Get everyone to ask their MP to read Part 8 (clauses 151 - 154) of
the Coroners and Justice Bill, and to oppose the massive enabling
powers in the "Information sharing" clause. The Bill contains a
number of controversial provisions, but to the casual reader it
appears mainly to be about reforming inquests and sentencing. It is
due its Second Reading in the Commons on 26th January 2009.
Request your MP demand that the clause be given proper Parliamentary
scrutiny. This is something that will affect every single one of
their constituents, unlike the rest of the Bill. There is a grave
danger that the government will set a timetable that will cut off
debate before these proposals - which are at the end of the Bill -
are discussed.
2) Write letters to your local papers. Also, put out a group press
release saying you have written to your local MP (once you have!) and
pointing out that this will affect every one of his or her
constituents. Highlight the fact that the information sharing powers
in this Bill are overwhelmingly unpopular.
A YouGov poll in the Sunday Times on 18th January (details
here:
http://forum.no2id.net/viewtopic.php?p=100808)
shows that the public opposes these new powers by a factor of 3 to 1
*against* - 65% of people asked said they would give government
"too much power", only 19% thought not.
The government can't pretend a popular mandate for what it is doing.
And it is a mechanism designed to by-pass Parliament in future. It is
being done only for the convenience of the bureaucrats.
3) Tell as many people and other groups (local political parties,
union branches, the WI, churches, mosques, temples, etc.) as you can.
And find out more yourself. We have created a new page on the website
dedicated to 'data sharing' which contains links to the key documents
and a brief explanation of each.
Please read it, and pass on this link:
http://www.no2id.net/datasharing.php
Let your friends, family, colleagues and anyone who might share our
concerns know that the battle for their privacy is happening NOW. The
more people we reach, the more we hope will act.
We really can't afford not to win. Good luck!
*********** and ***********
NO2ID Local Groups Coordinator NO2ID National Coordinator