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Brown is transforming the meaning of citizenship « OurKingdom - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 07 Nov 07 - Cached

Transformational Government, dressed in the language of consumerism, is what NO2ID calls “the database state” – management of citizens’ lives through centralised computer systems; pooling and cross-referencing information about people gathered on any pretext for any purpose, amounting to mass surveillance. Once your relations with the state preserved your privacy, being limited to relationships with bodies that were separate from each other. A single department was powerful, but it did not judge you on your whole life. Transformational Government changes that. You will have a single permanent record, and your identity managed (or determined) by the state. That will be held together by cross-referencing databases – which is what a National Identity Register is needed for. ‘ID cards’ are the concrete expression of this register, but strictly speaking are not necessary: numbering you and making constant reference to the central file will do.
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tony curzon price on 07 Nov 07

UK ID database

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Names database - first names, last names, description, meaning - 0 views

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The biggest and most complete site

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BBC NEWS | UK | All UK 'must be on DNA database' - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 05 Sep 07 - Cached

Lord Justice Sedley told BBC News the current England and Wales database, which holds DNA from crime suspects and scenes, was "indefensible". He added it would be fairer to include "everybody, guilty or innocent" on it.
- tony curzon price on 05 Sep 07
  
  creeping big-brotherisation
  
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Britain's future: Labour candidates respond | openDemocracy - 0 views

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Britain’s future: Labour candidates’s view
- tony curzon price on 10 Jun 07
  
  Anthony - nice to see this was picked up by the observer - see: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/constitution/story/0,,2099735,00.html
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Anthony - nice to see this was picked up by the observer - see: <a href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/constitution/story/0,,2099735,00.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://politics.guardian.co.uk/constitution/story/0,,2099735,00.html</a></div>
  
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- Anthony Barnett on 10 Jun 07
  
  Yes, they wanted exclusive first right and I gave it them. What you can see in the paper edition but not on the web, it that they put the story at the top of the page on the right hand column. Positioning is much more than half the story in a newspaper. Its layout tells people what to read. Is it the same onthe web?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Yes, they wanted exclusive first right and I gave it them. What you can see in the paper edition but not on the web, it that they put the story at the top of the page on the right hand column. Positioning is much more than half the story in a newspaper. Its layout tells people what to read. Is it the same onthe web? </div>
  
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I am agnostic on the need for a written constitution, because of the power it hands to the judges.
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so I let's have a national debate.
- tony curzon price on 10 Jun 07
  
  "let's have a national debate" ... this seems to be a today-program, motherhood-apple-pie mantra. what is this national debate? where is it to be had? on radio4?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"let's have a national debate" ... this seems to be a today-program, motherhood-apple-pie mantra. what is this national debate? where is it to be had? on radio4?</div>
  
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- tony curzon price on 10 Jun 07
  
  see Cruddas below - getting a bit more specific on what a "national debate" might mean
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">see Cruddas below - getting a bit more specific on what a "national debate" might mean</div>
  
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- Anthony Barnett on 10 Jun 07
  
  Benn's remark is rhetoric. Harmann above has thought about the need for mechanisms for ensuring public respect. The issue is a defining one. A wonderful constitution produced from Brown's inside pocket will be scorned as the gimmick of a 'Scot'. A less well worded one that emerges from a South African style process which people feel they 'own' could initiate a democratic process. What matters is not that it is written but how it is written!
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Benn's remark is rhetoric. Harmann above has thought about the need for mechanisms for ensuring public respect. The issue is a defining one. A wonderful constitution produced from Brown's inside pocket will be scorned as the gimmick of a 'Scot'. A less well worded one that emerges from a South African style process which people feel they 'own' could initiate a democratic process. What matters is not that it is written but how it is written!</div>
  
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It needs to be relevant to the man or woman in the street as a way of restoring trust in politics.
- tony curzon price on 10 Jun 07
  
  is the constitution being asked to do too much. the mistrust of politics has many sources; the real powerlessness of national governments over many of the areas they pretend to rule is one. there is a whole process of resetting expectations that a consittuional convention is unlikely to do. in fact, there is the risk that a constitution will raise hopes that _it_ cannot fulfill, and contribute to the mistrust.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">is the constitution being asked to do too much. the mistrust of politics has many sources; the real powerlessness of national governments over many of the areas they pretend to rule is one. there is a whole process of resetting expectations that a consittuional convention is unlikely to do. in fact, there is the risk that a constitution will raise hopes that _it_ cannot fulfill, and contribute to the mistrust.</div>
  
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Gordon Brown has spoken of the need to empower communities at a local level. Should the decentralization of power and money to local authorities form part of any new ‘constitutional settlement’?
- tony curzon price on 10 Jun 07
  
  not one of the candidates raises the BIG RED FLAG of localism: how do you continue to operate redistributive policies when income, wealth and opportunity differences are geographical?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">not one of the candidates raises the BIG RED FLAG of localism: how do you continue to operate redistributive policies when income, wealth and opportunity differences are geographical?</div>
  
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evise but not block
- tony curzon price on 10 Jun 07
  
  I wonder what "revise but not block" actually means ... if you can revise a piece of legislation out of all shape, that is tantamount to blocking, no? and once the body is elected, does equal legitimacy not entail equal power?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I wonder what "revise but not block" actually means ... if you can revise a piece of legislation out of all shape, that is tantamount to blocking, no? and once the body is elected, does equal legitimacy not entail equal power?</div>
  
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We need a public debate
- tony curzon price on 10 Jun 07
  
  another public debate ... see above. again - who with? how? and what is the outcome of a "public debate" worth looking at this article: http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-edemocracy/idcard_2537.jsp by sara forsstrom, about the Swedish database ... that goes back to the 17th century. Trustworthy states can have databases; so how do we make the state trustworthy? maybe exchanging access to our personal information with access to its private information?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">another public debate ... see above. again - who with? how? and what is the outcome of a "public debate" worth looking at this article: <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-edemocracy/idcard_2537.jsp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-edemocracy/idcard_2537.jsp</a> by sara forsstrom, about the Swedish database ... that goes back to the 17th century. Trustworthy states can have databases; so how do we make the state trustworthy? maybe exchanging access to our personal information with access to its private information?</div>
  
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Slashdot | Anonymity of Netflix Prize Dataset Broken - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 27 Nov 07 - Cached

"The anonymity of the Netflix Prize dataset has been broken by a pair of computer scientists from the University of Texas, according to a report from the physics arXivblog. It turns out that an individual's set of ratings and the dates on which they were made are pretty unique, particularly if the ratings involve films outside the most popular 100 movies. So it's straightforward to find a match by comparing the anonymized data against publicly available ratings on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) (abstract on the physics arxiv). The researchers used this method to find how individuals on the IMDb privately rated films on Netflix, in the process possibly working out their political affiliation, sexual preferences and a number of other personal details"
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