The UK ID card scheme is heading our way. Now, the next phase, discussed separately but a part of the same design for organs of the State to evolve into Big Brother, is being discussed in Parliament

Let’s talk about these two apparently loosely related components for what they really are. The databases of identity and communications are deeply interrelated from a Government perspective.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are now capable of fishing in this data pool and cross-referencing the most innocuous of details and then pulling you into a Police cell because your behaviour is suspect Winston Smith.

The film Minority Report is now barely science fiction due to the increasingly predictive capabilities of artificial intelligence and the ongoing development of computers on which it runs.

AI is fuzzy and error prone like the human brain, but nevertheless powerful in predicting behaviours in complex systems (society) in the same way that you get a hunch, an intuitive feeling that a person you are talking with is lying.

The State loves this kind of tool, it tells them which individuals to trust and which individuals to intern. Hitler’s IBM supplied card indexing system of the German population was such a tool but stone age in comparison with our information age technology.

Do you visit an ‘alternative’ bookstore or support Greenpeace, and go to demos? Watch your back. I predict this.