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Anonymous wrote: Harlequin wrote: two questions: Where exactly is the database running? Who is actually running it? I had thought it was the case that the contracts for supplying the hardware hadnt even been signed so how on earth can this thing actually be with us. Some factual clarification wouldn't go amiss ... They signed the contract to build the NIR in April with IBM. Presumably they've been beavering away on it ever since....

Anonymous wrote: JamesElsdon_Baker wrote: So foreign nationals have their details stored by UKBA on their system not NIR, yet there is one foreign national on the NIR. Am confused. Like that he both asserts his independance whilst saying he wasn't interviewed, just phoned up and offered the job by the Home Office. No. Non EEA nationals (but not all of them yet) have their details stored on the UKBA biometric visa system. A foreign...

Manchester united against ID cards, ID minister finds All the supporters live somewhere else apparently John Oates: Quote: The online poll carried out by the [ Manchester Evening News ], clearly not astro-turfed by any special interest group, found four per cent of respondents were in favour of the cards against 96 per cent of people who were against it. This didn't faze [Meg Hillier, Identity Minister] though, who told the audience that...

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Harlequin wrote: Where exactly is the database running? Erm. C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\National_Identity_Register.xls

Quote: The national identity register - the controversial database at the heart of the ID card scheme - is "up and running", a new watchdog has told MPs. Sir Joseph Pilling said 538 people were on the database when he checked last week; all except one were UK nationals. Quote: Sir Joseph revealed that he was being paid £44,000 for six months as chairman of the new body, a role in which he works three days a week. He has a...

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or putting in so called 'small print' that by tendering your appllication you have implicitly given your permission and you ought to be on the lookout for that more & more these days as its becoming much more common. _________________ Be nice until its time not to be nice! Flipper Thanks Legal disclaimer: Parts or all of any of my posts may be inacurate or untrue or personal opinion. Anything I write is entirely my own...

It is an academic study, and will not have grand policy conclusions. The intro to the review is pretty sharp, much more worth quoting than what's above: Quote: There is hardly a more important case regarding policies and politics of individual identities than the adoption of the British Identity Cards Act, which in time will lead to both a compulsory national identity card for well over 50 million British citizens and the incorporation...