WHAT WE STAND FOR

NO2ID is a campaigning organisation. We are a single-issue group focussed on the threat to liberty and privacy posed by the rapid growth of the database state, of which "ID cards" are the most visible part. We are entirely independent. We do not endorse any party, nor campaign on any other topic.

We aim to publicise the case against state identity management among the general public, in the media, and at every level in government. NO2ID's members are from all sorts of backgrounds and hold all sorts of opinions on other questions. They almost certainly include people much like you. Please support us.

NO2ID comment:

NOT DEAD – NOT EVEN SLEEPING

Reading news reports you might think there had been a 'government climbdown', and that our liberties and privacy are now safer than they were. Not a bit of it.

When she says the government won't be building a single super-database "because of privacy", Jacqui Smith is lying. She has never worried about your privacy before, and the actual policy remains the same. Not one step back in mass surveillance, but a surge forward.

Behind the carefully set-up headline there is a simple announcement: the government does intend more comprehensive monitoring than any police state in history — who you call, for how long, what you read online, who all your friends are, who you emailed, when, and where you were when you did so — all without a warrant.

David Blunkett is spinning too. The headlines say "Blunkett seeks 'end to ID cards'" but what he has actually called for is a re-packaging to fabricate public trust. He has done so before. Mr Blunkett still believes that you should be officially numbered, and your identity determined in a central register. The physical token you to carry is irrelevant.

Likewise the Identity and Passport Service. They have not given up. They have been busy restructuring the identity scheme so that core elements cannot be separated from passports. Mr Blunkett's plan and that of the current builders is remarkably similar. The machine is defending itself with all the cunning of well-paid executives protecting their managerial empires.

Making up a new public face for them does not change these projects or the culture behind them. That it can be tried just underlines the fraud at the heart of the database state.

Join NO2ID and fight for a real change.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT 'ID CARDS'

There's a lot of confusion about the government's proposed national identity scheme, and it doesn't help that the Home Office often gives misleading information.

Our summary of the scheme is here.

Answers to selected Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are here.

The 'database state' is what we call the tendency to try to use computers to manage society by watching people. There are many interlocking government plans that do this. Together they mean officials poking into your private life more than ever before.

The list of database state initiatives on which NO2ID is campaigning, along with a wide range of other organisations is here.

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