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Pledge time again OMG!
Aug. 1st, 2005 05:06 pmIf yr in the UK, it's time to go ticky at pledgebank, or the cute kittie will get itme.
The refuse to apply for an ID card and pay £10 into a fighting fund pledge is up to 10876 signatures now, but just because it's met its target is no reason not to sign it if you haven't already done so.
OTOH, if you don't feel (for whatever reason) that you can refuse to apply for the thing yourself, you can pledge to pay £20 to the fighting fund in support iff 50,000 other people end up doing so too before 31st March next year. Sign the first one if your conscience and/or job allow it, though.
And another thing... You can express your opposition to biometric passports too, by pledging to renew yours on 15th August, which has the added advantage of giving you ten years without embedded biometric data even if the bastard things do start appearing after October.
Finally (for now, at least :) you can find a good use for that spare fiver in your pocket by pledging to pay £5 a month to help fund a UK organisation campaigning for digital rights - a sort of British EFF, if you like. More information about the idea is available, and if you agree with me that the balance between monopoly protection and users' rights has swung too far toward restriction and is (with encouragement from rights owners and governments) heading further the wrong way, then that £5/month would be well invested.
The refuse to apply for an ID card and pay £10 into a fighting fund pledge is up to 10876 signatures now, but just because it's met its target is no reason not to sign it if you haven't already done so.
OTOH, if you don't feel (for whatever reason) that you can refuse to apply for the thing yourself, you can pledge to pay £20 to the fighting fund in support iff 50,000 other people end up doing so too before 31st March next year. Sign the first one if your conscience and/or job allow it, though.
And another thing... You can express your opposition to biometric passports too, by pledging to renew yours on 15th August, which has the added advantage of giving you ten years without embedded biometric data even if the bastard things do start appearing after October.
Finally (for now, at least :) you can find a good use for that spare fiver in your pocket by pledging to pay £5 a month to help fund a UK organisation campaigning for digital rights - a sort of British EFF, if you like. More information about the idea is available, and if you agree with me that the balance between monopoly protection and users' rights has swung too far toward restriction and is (with encouragement from rights owners and governments) heading further the wrong way, then that £5/month would be well invested.