Posts made in October, 2005
ID cards will lead to massive fraud – Scotsman.com News
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2103982005
Who would have thought, Microsoft coming out against ID cards?
From the page: “Unlike other forms of information, such as credit card details, if core biometric details such as your fingerprints are compromised, it is not going to be possible to provide you with new ones,” – Mr Fishenden, national technology officer for Microsoft”
As someone who has suffered ID fraud, and has had to get new cards etc, I can vouch for this as a really really good point!!!
Read MoreNews Headlines, Celebs and Football – Mirror.co.uk
From the page: “Tearing up rights and freedoms that date back to the Magna Carta will only hand a victory to criminals who carry out atrocities like those of July 7”
From the page: “The Bill will lower the burden of proof so suspects only have to be “not conducive to the public good”. This will only apply to those with a right to live abroad so they are not left stateless.”
Read MoreBlairs own watchdog tells him to rethink anti-terror law – Scotsman.com News
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2081052005
From the page: “the legislation had been drawn up to be immune to Human Rights appeals”
err.. anyone else find that concept a bit worrying?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1013/dailyUpdate.html
From the page: “under the terms of the bill, anyone who voices support for armed resistance to any state or occupation, however repressive or illegitimate, will be committing a criminal offence carrying a seven-year prison sentence %u2013 so long as members of the public might reasonably regard it as direct or indirect encouragement. Terrorism is not defined in the bill as, say, indiscriminate attacks on civilians, let alone an assault on civilian targets by states %u2013 but as any politically motivated violence against people, property or electronic systems anywhere in the world.”
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