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Digital Economy Bill Unconference and Workshops

I’m excited to announce that the Open Rights Group, in association with the GIST foundation, is hosting a free unconference and workshop on the Digital Economy Bill in Sheffield this month:

Date:
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Time:
13:30 – 21:00

Location:
The Showroom Café Bar, Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX

The Digital Economy Bill will affect you:

If your home Internet-connection contract is [...]

UK subjects will be compelled to submit to ID cards

To: Alan Powell, Editor, The Star
Dear Sir
James Hall is wrong to claim ID cards will be voluntary (Letters, 10 June).
Sheffield residents won’t be forced onto the National Identity Register directly, unless they’re from outside the European Economic Area, however the Government intends to make it impossible for us to live without an ID card.
Compulsion will [...]