{"id":452,"date":"2007-03-12T15:50:51","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T20:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/privacy-identity-theft\/britons-who-refuse-mass-surveillance-will-lose-passports\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T18:25:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T23:25:19","slug":"britons-who-refuse-mass-surveillance-will-lose-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/privacy-identity-theft\/britons-who-refuse-mass-surveillance-will-lose-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Britons Who Refuse Mass Surveillance Will Lose Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom&#8217;s Daily Mail reports that British citizens who opt out of a government ID card system will lose their ability to obtain, keep a travel passport.<\/p>\n<p>From the article &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anybody who objects to their personal details going on the new &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; ID cards database will be banned from having a passport.<\/p>\n<p>James Hall, the official in charge of the supposedly-voluntary scheme, said the Government would allow people to opt out &#8211; but in return they must &#8220;forgo the ability&#8221; to have a travel document.<\/p>\n<p>With one in every eight people saying they will refuse to sign-up, up to five million adults could effectively be refused permission to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners reacted to Mr Hall&#8217;s remarks with fury, saying they were yet more evidence of the lurch towards &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Booth, of the NO2ID group, said: &#8220;The idea that ID cards scheme is voluntary, and people can opt-out, is a joke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=441329&amp;in_page_id=1770&amp;ito=newsnow\">Don&#8217;t like ID cards? Hand over your passport<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom&#8217;s Daily Mail reports that British citizens who opt out of a government ID card system will lose their ability to obtain, keep a travel passport. From the article &#8212; Anybody who objects to their personal details going on the new &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; ID cards database will be banned from having a passport. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/privacy-identity-theft\/britons-who-refuse-mass-surveillance-will-lose-passports\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Britons Who Refuse Mass Surveillance Will Lose Passports<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy-identity-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6164,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/6164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}