Freedom

ID Cards: A New Layer of Compulsion

By Henry Porter
A week or two away from the land of surveillance and you realise what a very strange place Britain has become. On my return from holiday I understood one frightening truth, which is that surveillance systems and databases have become as much a part of the country’s infrastructure as the road or rail networks. No government, however liberal or determined, has the power to dismantle the apparatus that Labour has put in place. On the thread of my most recent post, divesandlazarus asked, “I wonder if in 2010 Cameron will be able to ‘press default’ and return the criminal justice system legislation to what it was in 1997.”
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Posted by Editor at September 9, 2009 01:20 AM