The Identity Cards Act 2006 turns your passport into a one-way ticket to control of your identity by the government. It means lifelong surveillance, and untold bureaucracy. Get a new Passport now, and buy 10 years freedom from registration on the National Identity Register. Act now. Protect yourself later. If we all act together, we'll send a message to the politicians and bureaucrats who think that they can take control of who we are, and to the companies that hope to make a fortune — at our expense — helping them. You may have heard that you'll be able to opt out of having an ID card if you renew your passport before 1st January 2010. But the card is not the point. Even if you chose not to have it, you would still have to pay for it. And you will get no choice about attending an official interview, producing numerous personal documents to be recorded, and having your fingerprints and eye scans taken for the records. "Anyone who opts out in my opinion is foolish." — Charles Clarke, on the passing of the Identity Cards Act 2006. Ignore the sneering. Once you are on the Register, you will never get off until it is abolished. But you'll be exposed to all the risks and dangers of the scheme immediately. The Home Office is building the most complex and intrusive ID control system in the world. It will certainly go wrong. Once you are on the Register — with or without a card — you will also be forced to keep all the details that are kept about you up to date (and sort out any government errors). Once you are on the Register you will face penalty charges for not telling the Home Office if you move house or if any other of your registered details change. Far from being 'foolish', renewing your passport to avoid all this is just plain common sense. In the 10 years that follow, NO2ID and many others will be working to end the ID scheme and keep Britain a free country. "... anyone who feels strongly enough about the linkage not to want to be issued with an ID card in the initial phase will be free to surrender their existing passport and apply for a new passport before the designation order takes effect." — Charles Clarke, on 21st March 2006. The Home Secretary himself has said you can do it. Don't delay — he might change his mind....