Kiwi Tom Chapman writes for Public Address about the authoritarian bureaucracy that has been taking root under New Labour’s watch in Britain.
The UK police, who have my DNA, have already sold DNA data to private companies and, according to Jenny Willott MP, this includes “sinister explorations into ethnic profiling.”
I’ve pencilled in the advent of a National ID card and/or biometric passports as points at which I might leave Britain. I just don’t want to be a part of a society that has a centralised infrastructure whereby the government or some numbskull at the Post Office/Police can have access to all this information and use it against people they don’t like.
I don’t how many times I’ve heard the cliché “if you don’t have something to hide you’ve got nothing to worry about” so in some ways a lot of people here deserve such a government.