The Identity and Passport Service is now starting a survey of Manchester Airport staff in order to understand employees views on the proposed CWIC application form. Volunteers are being offered £75 of our governments money to take part in the survey. Not all volunteers will be called forward for interview. It would appear that successful volunteers will be aked to go through a trial application process and give their comments.
If this is true then it is imperative that the staff at Manchester are made aware of the pitfalls of accepting this bribe. It is important for them not to be reassured by government spin and platitudes and realise that once they are on this database they will be on it for life. They should be made aware of a lifetime threat of civil penalties, loss of personal privacy and security risks. Is that worth £75.00?
Interestingly a report on the database state out today from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, says that more than half of Whitehall's 46 databases and systems have significant problems with privacy or effectiveness, and could fall foul of a legal challenge. It says Britain is now the most invasive surveillance state and the worst at protecting privacy of any western democracy.
Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said: "In their desperation to track our every move, ministers have created a glut of databases, many of which are quite simply illegal." 
Link: BBC NEWS | UK | Call to scrap 'illegal databases'