Stop the Database State

Manchester No2ID have unveiled a new campaign flyer to highlight their ongoing and necessary commitment to stopping ID cards and the database state. The leaflet highlights how the legislation behind the Government's pledge to scrap ID cards does not go far enough, and outlines other Database State initiatives that still need tackling.

Manchester No2ID Press Release
Date: 23rd April 2010
For immediate release

At a Manchester Withington hustings last night, six of the seven constituency candidates spoke out against the ongoing ID card scheme and compulsory identity database. The National Identity Scheme is an ongoing issue in the election, with clear dividing lines between Labour and the other major parties on the issue.

MANCHESTER DEMONSTRATION AT ID CARD ENROLMENT CENTRE

Manchester NO2ID Press Release
Date: 27th November 2009
For immediate release

Manchester NO2ID and other groups who oppose the National Identity Scheme are holding a protest at the Identity and Passport Service "enrolment centre" at Westminster House on Portland Street, at 1pm on Monday 30th November 2009.

MANCHESTER NO2ID PRESS RELEASE
Date: 14th October 2009
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NO2ID are holding a day of action in Manchester to promote the new "Stop the ID Card Con" campaign, on Saturday 17th October.

National NO2ID co-ordinator Phil Booth will speak at a public meeting at the Friends Meeting House at 3:30pm, discussing people's concerns. The campaign intends to burn a giant ID card at 5pm in Albert Square.

NO2ID launches a major new information campaign this autumn, as people in Manchester and the North-West prepare to become the guinea-pigs in the Government's first attempt at a regional rollout of the National Identity Scheme anywhere in the UK.

The populations of so-called 'Beacon Areas' in the North-West, including Manchester, will be encouraged to register voluntarily on the scheme, which will require them to hand over their fingerprints and consent to having their personal data held on the National Identity Database for life.

Civil liberties campaigners have questioned the Home Office's motives behind an "ID card registration" event at Manchester Central Library on Tuesday 5th May. The event has not been publicised on the library's website, in the press or on the council's website, and follows Manchester's appointment as a "beacon area" for the National Identity Scheme.

Manchester is just a few days away from a major Convention on Modern Liberty, and it looks like being a huge success. The Manchester Convention has just announced a series of lightning talks in an attempt to include more people in the debate on matters of civil liberties.

NORTH-WEST NO2ID PRESS RELEASE
Date: 8th February 2009
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Manchester will host a nationwide public on civil liberties at the end of February. The Convention on Modern Liberty in Manchester will be held at Manchester University Students' Union on Saturday 28th February from 9:45. The event is open to the public and free of charge.

It will feature local campaign groups talking about different areas of civil liberties, combined with live video feeds of high-profile speeches and debates from the likes of Shami Chakrabati and David Davis MP.

PRESS RELEASE
Date: 29th January 2009
For Immediate Release

Stalker State Comes To Manchester

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is on a low-key visit to Manchester today to try and flog the discredited ID card scheme to Wythenshawe school children. This is part of the Government's attempts to extend the National Identity Database to 14 year olds [1].

This is a U-turn on assurances given to MPs and the public when the legislation was passed, but there are powers buried in the Identity Cards Act that would allow the Home Secretary to do it by regulation.

PRESS RELEASE
Date: 25th January 2009
For Immediate Release

Local campaign group NO2ID are calling upon Manchester's MPs to oppose radical data sharing powers, to be debated in Parliament on Monday as part of the Coroners and Justice Bill.

These would allow Government ministers to take any private information about Manchester's residents, collected by any organisation for any purpose, and share it with anybody of their choosing, with no debate in Parliament. For example, the Minister for Health could access Tesco's club card database and see who's buying more wine than average.