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News Flash: Its an Identification Card!

Posted by: hillingdonfirst on: May 30, 2009

The HillingdonFirst website is on its way. It will seemingly be located at http://www.hillingdonfirst.org.uk. This domain was registered on February 6th 2009 by a ‘Kate Nash’ (we are secretly hoping its the singer, but doubt it). It is just a holding page at the moment, however, here are some demo pages…

These demo pages leave some more questions to be answered.

  1. Why do we need to register a card?
  2. Why would we need to login?
  3. What will be done with our email addresses?
  4. How do you register if you don’t have internet access?
  5. What is stored, how is it accessed and secured?

More interesting is the Source Code (pg2 of the PDF) for all these pages:

The Hillingdon First card is an identification card for residents of Hillingdon issued by the council.

This is what they are calling it internally, yet externally, on the same page, its a ‘Privilege card’. Why would that be I wonder? Could it be that people don’t like ID cards, but they do love a privilege!

Funny, the Conservatives are against national ID cards… maybe local ID cards are OK?


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Hillingdon First is a new card scheme that has been introduced in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Unfortunately the hillingdon website is light on facts, so we decided to put up a more informative site.

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