NO2ID
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NO2ID is a non-partisan
History
NO2ID arose initially from various campaigning groups to become an entity in its own right. Its initial form was to act as an umbrella group including staff and officers of
NO2ID's support is broad based including
Organisation
NO2ID is a UK-wide membership organisation, supported by subscriptions, donations and some grant funding, mainly from the
NO2ID grew rapidly during the initial Parliamentary battle against the UK ID cards legislation which, after the first Bill fell having failed to be passed before the general election in May 2005, was re-introduced and passed as the Identity Cards Act 2006 in March 2006. At that point, NO2ID had around 30,000 registered supporters and a network of around 100 other supportive organisations. A partial list of those organisations declaring public support can be found on the NO2ID website.[7]
As of December 2008, NO2ID had some 60,000 registered supporters and active groups in most major cities and many towns across the UK.
Campaign
NO2ID launched its public campaign with an online petition that gathered over 3,000 signatures in a little over four weeks, submitted just as the Labour Government introduced the first Identity Cards Bill in November 2004.
In July 2005, NO2ID signed up over 10,000 people through PledgeBank, who pledged to refuse to accept an identity card and to contribute £10 to a fund to provide legal support for those prosecuted for resisting registration. A second identical pledge was launched to try to double the number of people publicly committed to resisting registration, but this failed to gain traction. Over two years later, in November 2007, the Pledge was called in and during the first fortnight alone over £40,000 was raised and put into a ring-fenced Legal Defence Fund.
In May 2006, NO2ID launched the "Renew for Freedom" campaign, urging passport holders to renew their passports to delay being entered on the
In September 2006, the NO2ID campaign started an appeal to track down the locations of the new outsourced Passport /
In November 2007, the campaign launched the NO2ID Pledge – a new form of non-violent direct action: pre-emptive resistance. The NO2ID Pledge, supported by public figures including Nick Clegg and Shirley Williams, encourages people to resolve publicly and clearly that they will not to do those specific things that give the ID scheme its "parasitic vitality".[10]
Repeal of the Identity Cards Act
In September 2010, the Identity Documents Act 2010 was passed, repealing the Identity Cards Act 2006 and abolishing identity cards and the National Identity Register. At the introduction of the Bill by the
Related campaigns
During the course of its campaign against the database state, NO2ID has helped establish three other independent campaigns: TheBigOptOut.org[13] and medConfidential[14] campaigning for medical confidentiality and LeaveThemKidsAlone,[15] a parent-led campaign against the fingerprinting of children in schools and nurseries.
See also
- Document imaging#Identity document scanning
- NHS Connecting for Health
- Pressure groups in the United Kingdom
Notes
- ^ Wheeler, Brian (11 February 2008). "The campaign group: No2ID". BBC News. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
- ^ "Memorandum by NO2ID". UK Parliament. 8 June 2007. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
- ^ Stand: Defining Digital Freedoms In The UK Archived December 5, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "official motions » NO2ID". no2id.net.
- ^ "Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd". jrrt.org.uk.
- ^ "local groups » NO2ID". no2id.net.
- ^ "our supporters » NO2ID". no2id.net. Archived from the original on 2006-01-05. Retrieved 2005-07-28.
- ^ UFO Themes. "Renew For Freedom". renewforfreedom.org.
- ^ "I beg to move, That this House does...: 21 Mar 2006: House of Commons debates - TheyWorkForYou". theyworkforyou.com.
- ^ "Stop ID cards and the database state » NO2ID". no2id.net.
- ^ Hansard. "HC Deb, 9 June 2010, c365".
- ^ Hansard. "HC Deb, 15 September 2010, c961".
- ^ Augustin Lawrence. "WhatsApp for PC Download (Windows 7/8) - WhatsApp for Web". The Big Opt Out.
- ^ "Why does medical confidentiality matter?". medconfidential.org.
- ^ LTKA - campaigning against the fingerprinting of UK schoolchildren Archived 2007-03-23 at the Wayback Machine