Opposition to ID cards reaches 50%
Anthony Wells
A new ICM poll for the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust suggests 50% of people now think ID cards would be a bad idea, with 47% thinking them a good idea.
The wording in the question was the same as used in the series of polls done for No2ID by ICM, so it is directly comparable to previous questions - back in September before the loss of benefit data the same question was showing 54% in favour and only 42% against, though it should be pointed out that the opposition isn’t unprecedented, a poll in July 2007 found a majority against cards.
Despite the drop in support for ID cards and the recent data loss incidents, the public still seem positive about other proposals whee data security would be an issue - 51% said they would be comfortable with the government building a database of everyone in the country including their fingerprints (48% were uncomfortable), 67% were happy with the government collecting travel information on British citizens going in and out of the country (31% were uncomfortable), 53% were comfortable with the idea of the government making a database with information on every child in the UK (45% uncomfortable). Only with the idea of allowing government departments to share information provided to one of them to others were a majority (52%) uncomfortable.
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Adrian Tawse
Posted: Feb 10th, 2008 at 11:57 am
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I think opposition may well grow when the letters start arriving on peoples doorstep “You are required to attend for interview at xxxxx on XXXX where you may be required to correctly answer any question we may care to ask. You will be required to provide details of XXXX. Failure to attend or provide the reqired documentation or provide finger prints may result in a fine not exceeding £2000.00″. I think the same spirit of cussedness that enabled us to resist Hitler when all hope seemed lost will kick in. This may well be Labour’s poll tax. After all we are slowly realising that all the Government justifications for this state surveilance is another edition of the Dodgy Dossier, a load of bollocks.