Of course you will still find you are overwhelmed by the "if you have
nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" brigade. The Jews, of course, had
nothing to fear, nor any reason to hide, until a nasty man with a bad
haircut came along.
Muslims in today's paranoid society "have nothing to fear and nothing to
hide", except, of course, that they are Muslim and are this obviously all
terrorists and to be hunted down and destroyed (if you believe US Rednecks).
Homosexuals have, in the UK, had nothing to fear nor anything to hide since
December 1967, except, of course, total discrimination in many workplaces.
"They came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Catholic.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak out for me."
- Pastor Martin Niemoller
And yet we will be labelling people in interesting and strange manners
http://www.joric.com/Conspiracy/1H-arm.htm
George Orwell wrote 1984 with great wisdom. The TV Show is rightly called
"Big Brother", yet we seem not to notice.
Have any of you noticed that the Data Privacy regimes in old totalitarian
states mean that they are first to be approved as SAFE to transfer data to
from the EEA? They understand the abuses that a rotten regime can make of
data.
Oh, some of you will trivialise this. And this group was not set up as a
"fighting group", simply as a learned discussion list. So perhaps this will
be deemed "out of place". And yet privacy is privacy. And if we do for our
own organisations what we are meant to do then it is up to us and people
like us who have the real knowledge to make sure that abuses do not happen.
So, back to the school: I remain certain that a complaint to TICO is
necessary.
-----Original Message-----
From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon Howarth (WSL)
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:38 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Fingerprinting schoolkids
>> Why not save time later and bar code everyone at birth :-)
>That is logical!
I used to be very much for ID cards, but now my views are changing fast. As
I read this I immediately thought of the Jews being tattooed with a number
for identification. Whilst I know the remark was jocular, this thought just
plain frightens me!
Simon Howarth.
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