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Government starts rollout of national biometric ID card starting with the vulnerable who can't easily refuse
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Wednesday July 31, 2013 11:48 by fred
Government is currently rolling out a national biometric ID card scheme ostensibly to help stamp out welfare fraud. It currently holds facial data and signature data. However the card is extensible and designed to hold other data in the future. (No doubt they started with the least offensive biometric measurement! ) The Irish government has begun roll out of a biometric ID cards ostensibly to help prevent welfare fraud by the unemployed. It has been stated openly that more data can be stored on the card and It is intended that it will also act as your driving license etc in the future. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4I was sent this letter almost a year ago and yes I am one of those vulnerable people that depends on the Social Welfare Department to live. I sent them a NOTICE OF NON-CONSENT and I haven't heard fro them since except for a short note written in pen stating that they received my notice. I also stated in the notice that if I have any problems accessing services I am entitled to in the future because of non-consent, that I will hold them responsible. I think though that once they have a critical mass of the public on these cards they will start deliberately making it difficult to use the current ones.
This changeover was announced to the public in a deliberately subdued manner just so there would not be opposition as there was in Britain when they tried to introduce them under Gordon Brown and had to roll back on it.
Also they most offensive part of all this is that in the letter asking for consent they write that if you don't consent you need not take any further action; this is a complete and utter blatent lie as 'silence is consent' in law. This shows the disgusting arrogance and contempt the government have for the public that they will bare faced lie to them, confident that they will get away with it.
The public needs to educate themselves in matters of law that they could be confronted with as every letter from the government or a business is a legal document and Legalese and English are not the same thing. I implore people to do their homework whenever they get a letter asking them for consent or money or a contract.
My mum and Dad's generation in Belfast. Fought and died to stop this trype in the 2world war. And here it is being sneaked in by an inept government on to the people of our little island. I know it does not apply to the people in the north, but we in the north admire those in the south for their freedom, and here it is being stripped away from them by their elected government.
Morgan, could you provide us with a copy of your letter? or at least an idea of what you wrote in it.
Thanks in advance
be careful of "freeman of the land" rubbish.
After some initial confusion, the courts usually laugh and stick you in the clink anyway.
It's nonsense.
It was probably invented to damage and divide genuine NVDA protest movements.
Curiously it became much bigger around the time of the occupy movement and
it's insidious divisiveness was largely responsible for the demise of some of the groups.
If "freeman of the land" junk did not exist, the state (or states!) would have to invent it
because it's so very useful to them.