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Post by Bismarck on May 19, 2010 13:06:41 GMT
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Post by Bismarck on May 19, 2010 13:11:02 GMT
The UK ID card scheme was always an excuse to feather some very large corporate nests while increasing central control and monitoring of everyone. Any logical analysis showed that it created a massive opportunity for ID fraud, provided no defense against any so-called terrorist threat, would inevitably result in hundreds of thousands of bits of incorrect and unverifiable data floating around while highly personal information would be flogged off to anyone with enough cash to buy it from one of the tens of thousands of registered users. Oh, and the real attraction was that most of the cost would be paid by users, whether they like it or not. Great for police too, who would have been able to stop anyone, anytime to demand a fingerprint to check against your little plastic dogtag...
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Post by Desktop Hoggy on May 19, 2010 22:58:09 GMT
Glad thats one proposition to be scrapped, couldn't really see the benefits of an ID card to the general public.
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Post by Stealth on May 27, 2010 13:49:29 GMT
Hurrah! I am not only against ID cards as a completely useless idea that we, as individuals, would be forced to pay for at huge expense but also the increasing use of libel laws by rich individuals to erode the freedom of the press. If they do nothing else this is a terrific start.
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