Are you in business? Do you do overseas trade? Do you use SWIFT to clear your transactions?

Have you been wondering why American companies are winning contracts over British firms? 

Did Gordon Brown, or the Treasury, or the Bank of England tell you that the Americans now have all of your financial data?

Gordon Brown knew in 2002 that the American Government subpoenaed SWIFT to provide details of all overseas transactions, and all banking details (and probably a lot more), of all European businesses, and I believe IT'S STILL GOING ON. 

Gordon Brown knew this because the Bank of England told him.

Gordon Brown and the Treasury have kept quiet about how they failed to safeguard your trade secrets, failed to protect your data.  

Gordon Brown and the Treasury have failed in their duty of care to British business.

Do you now feel safe giving the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) your personal banking details that they are going to want in order to give you a passport?

Notice that the UK Passport Office is now called Identity and Passport Service. They want your data, in the new 69 Interrogation centres being built in HMRC offices in 2007, envisaged to grow to 2000 centers, to interrogate the whole of the population.

Prior to interviews described as deliberately ”intrusive” by Home Office documents, large amounts of information will be collected on passport applicants, who then be cross-questioned on personal details.  

Those seeking their first adult passport, will be first to face the interrogation centers, then those who want to renew, then everyone else who does not have a passport, and they will be asked to provide many more details about themselves in the new forms than people currently are, such as their previous addresses, bank account details, and official reference numbers used for other government services.

See the NO2ID Press Release, and their suggestion you get your passport before the interrogation centers open, so you shouldn’t have attend an ‘Interrogation’ for 10 years.
 

New powers, in regulations under the Identity Cards Act 2006, will be used to make other public authorities provide private information they hold on the person corresponding to those details, which will be compiled into a single file.  

Once the IPS and HMRC have a single compiled file, they have a National Identity Register.

So the fop that David Cameron is promoting of getting rid of the ID card is rubbish, just a vote catcher, he will not commit to getting rid of the NIR. Why? Because the conservatives want it as much as NuLab do.

Is that data as ‘safe’ as the Data that Gordon Brown let the Americans have on your business transactions, or the data that DVLC sells. A NuLab guarantee is about as good as Gerald Ronson's jewellery.

Next time a Bank asks you for your Mother's maiden name as a security question, how do you feel about every civil servant in the UK already having access to that information, and probably within about 6 months every American.

Gordon Brown wants a Britain where the government know everything about you, and your lives will be monitored with cameras, mobile phone tracking, trackers in cars, and where they cannot get to you electronically, by the new STASI that they have set up to snoop on you.

Don’t you find the words ‘Interrogation Centres’ rather Germanic?