If you care about fundamental rights and freedoms, privacy and confidentiality, the time to act is NOW.

*** UPDATE 3rd July 2009 ***

Back in March 2009, Stop Clause 152! and other groups were successsful in getting the UK government to withdraw the unfettered data-sharing powers in Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill. At the time, we said it would try again.

Now it is.

On Wednesday 8th July 2009, the House of Commons will vote on a group of three ID-related Statutory Instruments including one called 'The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Provision of Information without Consent) Regulations 2009'.

This piece of secondary legislation would give powers to the Identity and Passport Service - the bit of the Home Office responsible for 'identity management' across government - to pass on information it holds on you *without your knowledge or consent*. (The ID scheme - and, most importantly, the linked databases on which it's based - is, contrary to some recent media reports, still very much alive.)

This information would include not only official document numbers, your name, addresses and signature (more than enough to facilitate massive identity fraud) but your fingerprints and even - to the police, intelligence services, taxman, and *anyone else they authorise* - details of every time you had had your ID checked, e.g to register with a GP, open a bank account, travel abroad.

Records of what information has been given to whom and why may be destroyed after 12 months or less.

This is precisely the sort of data trafficking we successfully opposed before, but we have very little time and need you to contact your MP straight away - http://www.WriteToThem.com makes it very easy - to tell him or her that you deeply object to having your personal information shared without your knowledge or consent, and ask him or her to vote against 'The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Provision of Information without Consent) Regulations 2009' and the other two ID-related Statutory Instruments on Wednesday 8th July.

Please write to your MP now AND TELL OTHERS - link to this group, e-mail your friends, but don't delay.
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If you care about fundamental rights and freedoms, privacy and confidentiality, the time to act is NOW.

*** UPDATE 3rd July 2009 ***

Back in March 2009, Stop Clause 152! and other groups were successsful in getting the UK government to withdraw the unfettered data-sharing powers in Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill. At the time, we said it would try again.

Now it is.

On Wednesday 8th July 2009, the House of Commons will vote on a group of three ID-related Statutory Instruments... (read more)