PRESS RELEASE
Date: 2nd July 2008
For Immediate Release

Privacy campaigners have welcomed airline bosses' strongly-worded letter opposing plans to force airport workers to register for government ID cards from next year.

Ahead of Greater Manchester's local elections on 1st May, local campaign group Manchester NO2ID is polling election candidates to highlight the cost of the National Identity Register at the local level. The published costings for the scheme, estimated at £10-20bn by the London School of Economics, does not include the cost to local authorities of reworking their computer systems to talk to the Government's central ID database, where over 50 categories of information will be stored on every resident along with a life-long audit track.

Preston NO2ID

PRESS RELEASE
Date: 17th March 2008
For Immediate Release

Preston Prepares to Oppose the Database State

Preston locals are planning to kick-start a new local group of the national NO2ID campaign against identity cards and the Database State. A meeting is being held at the Bluebell pub on Church Street at 7:30pm on Thursday 20th March to re-launch the campaign locally.

Manchester campaigners have condemned the Home Secretary's announcement on identity cards as a "meaningless smokescreen", under which the Government will continue their plan to coerce people into state control. Under new proposals, airport workers and non-EU foreign nationals will be forced onto the Government's databases, and biometric passports may replace identity cards as physical ID documents. The NO2ID group said the move would add nothing to security, and would put airport staff and teachers at risk of losing their jobs unless they sign up to the controversial scheme.

PRESS RELEASE
Date: 23rd January 2008
For Immediate Release

With yet more patient records going missing, local campaign group Manchester NO2ID is calling upon the NHS in Greater Manchester to abandon plans for more centralisation and computerisation of intimate medical details on the "NHS Spine" database.

Manchester supporters of NO2ID, the national campaign against identity cards and the database state, will be inviting the public to pledge opposition to the Government's schemes in St. Anne's Square this coming Saturday.

The NO2ID Pledge is a chance for people to stand up and be counted. The wording is simple and direct:

"I solemnly and publicly promise that:

• I shall not register for a national identity card
• I shall not supply personal details or fingerprints to a National Identity Register
• I shall not apply for any document or service if joining the National Identity Register is a condition of obtaining it
• I shall not co-operate with any Identity and Passport Service interview concerning my identity

I also promise by my example to encourage others to do the same."

For Immediate Release

In the light of HMRC's losing 25 million personal data records, local campaign group Manchester NO2ID is calling on all Greater Manchester councils to oppose the Government's plans to create further vulnerable centralised databases.