{"id":4974,"date":"2008-12-04T09:48:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T08:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2008-12-04T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T08:48:37","slug":"id-cards-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/id-cards-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"ID Cards Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"KonaBody\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Ministers trying to extend identity card scheme by stealth say Lib Dems<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\">Commenting on reports that measures will be introduced to allow state officials to demand a person\u2019s proof of identity at all times, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said:\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\"><span class=\"article-table-text\">\u201cMinisters seem to be breaking their promise that no one would ever have to carry an ID card. They are leaving the back door open by giving themselves the option to make the carrying of an ID card compulsory in future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a sly and underhand way of extending the ID card scheme by stealth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this is included in legislation, it will be the worst example of creeping state power since the outrageous plan, thankfully jettisoned, to allow ministers to create criminal offences with a sentence of up to two years in prison without even a debate in Parliament.\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\"><span class=\"article-table-text\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\"><span class=\"article-table-text\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u2018Expensive and intrusive\u2019 &amp; should be ditched says SNP<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span class=\"article-table-topic\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\"><span class=\"article-table-text\">SNP Westminster Home Affairs Spokesman, Pete Wishart MP, has expressed concern over reports that immigration and citizenship proposals in the Queen\u2019s Speech contain clauses which will give state officials the power, previously reserved for times of war, to demand proof of identity at any time. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\"><span class=\"article-table-text\">Currently, state officials can only ask for proof of identity if there is reasonable suspicion that an individual has committed a crime but according to analysis by Liberty, only those who have never been abroad for business or on holiday would be exempt under the new legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wishart said:<br \/>\n\u201cThis looks like another slippery attempt by the UK Government to introduce ID cards by the back door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLabour\u2019s abysmal record on data protection is reason enough to abandon ID cards but it is even more absurd pushing ahead with this costly project given the dire state of the UK Government\u2019s finances. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\"><span class=\"article-table-text\">Publictechnology.net <\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers trying to extend identity card scheme by stealth say Lib Dems Commenting on reports that measures will be introduced to allow state officials to demand a person\u2019s proof of identity at all times, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: \u201cMinisters seem to be breaking their promise that no one would ever have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1615],"tags":[37,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-4974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributions","7":"category-uk-news","8":"tag-id-cards","9":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}