A poll conducted by ICM for anti-national ID card
groupNO2IDshows almost two-thirds of the public are opposed to the
government database behind the scheme.
Asked by ICM what
they thought of storing information on large computer systems and
sharing it between different parts of government, 65% believed it
was a bad idea, while just 31% said it was a good idea.
Phil Booth, NO2ID's national co-ordinator, said, "Support for
ID cards is already under 50%. Even the government's own biased
surveys now show falls in support. The more people know, the less
they like it.
"Once it is common knowledge that the ID scheme is designed to
pass around the information it collects about you, then it is
politically doomed."
ICM Research interviewed a random sample of 1,001 adults aged
18+ by telephone.
NO2ID has just
launched a
video campaign on YouTube to highlight the database behind the
card and "what it will do to real people's lives".