{"id":343,"date":"2003-07-08T18:07:29","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T18:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/07\/id_cards_once_m\/"},"modified":"2003-07-08T18:07:29","modified_gmt":"2003-07-08T18:07:29","slug":"id_cards_once_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/id_cards_once_m\/","title":{"rendered":"ID Cards Once More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2087-736390,00.html\">Sunday Times<\/a> reported last weekend that everyone in the UK is have to carry an ID card and will have to pay 39 pounds for the privilige!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure that the story is phrased in as rabble-rousing a manner as possible, since I can&#8217;t see for the life of me that people will all fork out their 39 quid for a piece of plastic. It also seems to be a backdoor route for building a comprehensive figure printing database of the UK.<br \/>\nThe story also quotes Blunkett as saying that there is widespread approval for ID cards. Exactly where? The &#8220;Entitlement Card&#8221; consulation exercise was not a popular move, and was roundly opposed by those who even knew there was a consultation.<br \/>\nIncidentally, there are dozens of consultations happening all the time, and I&#8217;m now on a mailing list that informs me of upcoming consultations.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s really scary that they&#8217;re considering building this massive computer database &#8211; the possibilities for abuse are enormous. I&#8217;ll be doing everything I can to oppose such measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the Sunday Times reported last weekend that everyone in the UK is have to carry an ID card and will have to pay 39 pounds for the privilige! I&#8217;m sure that the story is phrased in as rabble-rousing a manner as possible, since I can&#8217;t see for the life of me that people will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}