After watching the ID card bill debate last night, it is now clear that the Government is not just ‘reacting to the international demand for biometric passports’, but creating that demand. Its Passport Agency is developing the supporting technology, and is lobbying worldwide for its adoption.
Therefore, the British Government obviously think it is acceptable to invade privacy, and take authoritarian control of individuals’ existence using technology. This is justified by ‘if you have not done anything wrong; you have nothing to worry about’.
The message is that society is going to be micro-managed using this technology to keep everyone on the ‘straight and narrow’. Nobody will be able to do ‘wrong’, even minor misdemeanours, due to the Government’s surveillance.

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