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UK ID Card Data To Be Internationally Shareable

13th December 2005 by Simon

I have yet to write my long-planned piece on the proposed ID cards scheme and, more importantly, the need for protection of personal information. In summary, it’s suffice to say I’m against the ID card.

It was with some horror, but frankly not a great deal of surprise, that I read the governments reply to the sharing of OUR personal information with other countries.

John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings, Con) Hansard source
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether identity card database material will be shared with other EU countries; and if he will make a statement.

Andy Burnham (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office) Hansard source
There will be no open access to the information held on the National Identity Register. Information may be provided with the consent of the individual under clause 14. Information may also be provided without consent under clause 19 to organisations such as the police and the security services, provided that the conditions set out in clauses 19 and 23 are met.
Clause 20 allows information to be provided to overseas authorities in the context of criminal proceedings and investigations, as provided for in section 17 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. In these cases both the safeguards provided under clause 23 and section 18 of the 2001 Act also apply.

I, and I suspect most of the UK population, am not familiar with the sections and clauses that have been mentioned in the answer.

What I do note is that the catch-all, umbrella of anti-terrorism is mentioned in it, so I suspect our personal data could be flying all over the world without our consent.

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