Another petition for you
Posted at 13:00:50
on Fri, November 30th 2007 by graham
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Another link to another petition for you, this time via BoingBoing (link) and the Open Rights Group:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to abandon plans to create the Information Sharing Index, a national database of all children aged between birth and eighteen.
You can find the petion at petitions.pm.gov.uk as usual.
Right, that's it for petitions and political statements this week. Promise.
[Edited to add]
By the way, I'm largely cynical about these petitions. I don't honestly believe that a government, particularly our government, particularly at the moment, is going to give any of these results more than a passing glance without dismissing the petitioners as uninformed.
Nevertheless, I'm also of the opinion that not putting my name to these things, whether or not I believe they're going to have any notice taken of them, would be tantamount to giving my consent to the very things against which the petitions stand. It's the same reason that I turn out and vote: I may be all but certain that my chosen candidate isn't going to get in but not voting is just another way of saying that I don't really care, when in fact I care very much. To put it another way, as the old saying goes, "Them as don't ask don't get."
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E-Voting
I am guessing you would also be interested in the Open Rights Group report on e-Voting in the UK elections this May. http://www.openrightsgroup.org/e-voting-main/ it makes quite scary reading. Don't miss the bit where the result of the Scottish Elections was nearly decided incorrectly by the resolution on a laptop and an excel spreadsheet.
# On November 30, 2007 at 14:02:43 by
Glyn
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