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- Download the OWOS "ID Card Free Zone" poster
- Sign up to the PledgeBank NO2ID pledge "I will refuse to register for an ID card and will donate £10 to a legal defence fund but only if 10,000 other people will also make this same pledge." click here
- The ID Cards Bill in full
- NO2ID - NO2ID is a campaigning organisation opposed to the government's planned ID card and National Identity Register. - With a network of local groups across the country
- Defy ID - Defy-ID is an adhoc network of groups and individuals who are prepared to actively resist the introduction of Identity Cards and the creation of the National Identity Register.
- Justice - All party law reform and human rights organisation - Briefing for the House of Lords Second reading
- Liberty - One of the UK's leading human rights and civil liberties organisations Key points in the ID Cards Bill - Briefing for the House of Lords Second reading - Shami Chakrabarti's article from Open Democracy - Identity cards: nothing to hide, nothing to fear?
- IRR News - ID cards: implications for Black, Minority Ethnic, migrant and refugee communities by Arun Kundnani - "The Identity Cards Bill is aimed at enabling the policing of a harder boundary of entitlement between British citizens and foreigners. The result will be the creation of a new under-class of those who are 'sans plastique'"
Bruce Schneier an US renouned cryptographer, computer security specialist, and writer. He has written many books on computer security and cryptography. He also founded and is the chief technology officer of BT Counterpane, formerly Counterpane Internet Security, Inc - National ID Cards - "It won't work. It won't make us more secure. In fact, everything I've learned about security over the last 20 years tells me that once it is put in place, a national ID card program will actually make us less secure."
- "ID cards are to Blair what poll tax was to Thatcher" - article by Michael Portillo in The Times, 03/07/05
- "Eight
out of 10 fear ID fiasco is on the cards" - article by Anthony King,
in The Daily Telegraph, 04/07/05, with the results of the YouGov poll
- The Register - IT and technology site - "Everything you never wanted to know about the UK ID Card"
- Privacy International - Watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations
- The Bow Group - Conservative think tank - "Identity Crisis - The case against ID cards" by Peter Lilley MP
- Wikipedia - Open Source encyclopedia - its useful overview on UK ID Cards
- Hans Sikidee - Journalist at NRC Handelsblad, Netherlands - Britain's non-identity crisis
- The Government has been criticised by Alvaro Gil-Robles the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner saying "Human Rights are not a pick and mix assortment of luxury entitlements but the very foundations of democratic societies" see the full report here