National ID cards are gone. But the infrastructure survives as the biometric permits for foreign residents. Mass-surveillance has not disappeared. The coalition's promises to "roll back the database state" are ineffectual. Indeed official demands for personal information are multiplying:

• Travel by car or motorbike and your number plate is read by a network of cameras and that record of movements passed to a central store.
• Leave or enter the country and all travel details you give will be put on a database that is available to dozens of UK and foreign agencies. The UK is lobbying for this to be written into EU law.
• Visit the doctor and the details may be captured. A new agency is planned to continue centralising and sharing of medical records, expanding the role of the existing Health and Social Care Information Centre.
• Monitoring of telephone and internet use continues to increase; all 'traffic data' is now kept for inspection, by law.
• Ever more public bodies are getting powers to share the information they have about you, on fine-sounding pretexts.

And …

• To tie it all together, perhaps, a more subtle government scheme for "identity assurance" is on the agenda. Depending on how that is implemented it could be harmless; or it could be very bad news indeed for privacy and personal liberty.

Please help us now NO2ID identified the dangers of "the database state" back in 2004. It is still the only organisation specifically dedicated to tackling it. Some people think it is all over. But privacy needs defending more than ever. We will continue to oppose dangerous new schemes, but also press for positive changes:

• protections in law for privacy that are available to everyone
• the right to control your own personal information
• entitlement to compensation if your privacy is abused

We have done much in the last seven-and-half years. We can do more. But we need your help. If you think privacy is worth fighting for, then please support us.