WIKICharles Clarke
Charles Clarke former Labour MP for Norwich South.
Database State
The Sunday Times Help! They know all about me 5 November 2006
- On the BBC’s Question Time last week, Charles Clarke, the former home secretary, said glibly that people who wished to reduce the amount of information gathered about them could do so by choosing not to keep a bank account and never visiting the doctor.
Identity cards
Charles Clarke was Home Secretary in 2004 when the ID card bill was before the house. He is a very strong fan.
The Evening Standard quotes Charles Clarke in The truth about Charles Clarke's ID card claims
- Opponents of ID cards like to talk in extravagant language of a police state run by fascists, and so on. I believe passionately that, properly handled, identity data improves the quality of our lives, protects our liberty and enhances our security
House of Commons debate Identity Cards Bill 21 December 2004
- "... it is entirely false to claim that ID cards will erode our civil liberties, re-visit "1984", usher in the Big Brother society or establish some kind of totalitarian police state."
DNA database
Submitted his DNA voluntarily to the police national database in order to persuade viewers of his Channel 4 piece that they should do likewise.