Guy Herbert
general secretary, NO2ID

Guy Herbert was born in Oxford. He has worked for most of the past 30 years in one phase of publishing or another, from retail bookselling to literary agency, and is now a business affairs consultant as well as being the director of a traditional literary/screenwriting agency.

The originator of the phrase ‘the database state’ now widely used to identify population management through the surveillance of mass data, he been the volunteer general secretary of NO2ID since 2004. The campaign group, founded to oppose the Blair administration’s National Identity Scheme, is dormant, but still exists; and Herbert retains an active interest in the subject, working with other groups including the Foundation for Information Policy Research.

Follow Guy on Twitter @guy_herbert

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