Your fingerprints for ID cards to be used to check unsolved crimes

[Dom Tuk]

Blair has shown his true colours. The bill went thru parliaments and this was not mentioned. Everyone feared it but that liar said it wont be used for this purpose. Now it turns out the liar was after all lying.......our fingerprints will be used to check for unsolved crimes. Ofcourse no one will be bothered by this.........Blair knows how dumb this electorate has been....they elected him twice.

[WaldoMcFroog]

There seems to be a lot of single person action in your country, Mr Ben.

[jake-the-peg]

Does "Nothing to hide nothing to fear" extend to speed cameras too?

How about Inland revenue and bank accounts?

Surely search warrants should be a thing of the past?

[OBonio]

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear... forever the argument of people who trust a government, despite them being the last people you should trust. You know not what you wish upon yourselves.

[WaldoMcFroog]

Gromit: "There must have been a provision written in the original Bill that went before parliament to allow for the fingerprint data to be used for crime detection. The fact that no one made a fuss about it may indicated that most law abiding people probably think it is a good idea, and it would be a criminal waste of data not to use it for that purpose. "

The Tories and Lib Dems are saying this is the first they've ever heard of it, so do you not think the resounding silence may be a teency wincy bit more to do with this than any other factor?

[Grunty]

I still believe in the Charles de Gaulle quote that I posted elsewhere:

As politicians never believe what they say, they are surprised when other people believe them.

[Supernick]

Excellent point jake-the-peg. You may have just totally changed my mind on this subject. I did adhere to the nothing to hide, nothing to fear policy,but the point about search warrents presents me with a conflict and I can't reasonably maintain my position anymore

[Dom Tuk]

care to expand on the search warrant point JTP, i dont seem to be able to make the connection.

[Supernick]

The point that I took from it Dom Tuk (and feel free to but in jake-the-peg) that if you abide by the 'nothing to hide then nothing to worry about', then why not extend that to search warrants etc? If you've got nothing to hide, is there anything objectionable in the police popping round at any time to have a root through what you're doing? I think there is, and that the nothing to hide idea is far too simplistic