ID卡片的實際費用

由米克・ Meaney
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ID卡片的實際費用不是僅到納稅人的錢包，而是更深并且有真實地干擾的衝擊，永遠威脅我們的生活方式。 您將財政不僅支付，但它也將花費您個人保密性和可能性您  身分。

腐蝕ID卡片計劃的保密性遭受了另一內部被設置作為政府憂慮在獲得、費用和程序管理。

The controversial scheme costs £5.3bn and 50 million UK citizens are set to receive the cards over the next 10 years. Costs have risen by £400m since just October.

James Hall, chief executive of the U.K. Identity and Passport Service, which is in charge of the ID card project said a “major” procurement process was set to begin, although “we’re not quite ready yet,” but did not state when this would begin.

It amounts to nothing more than the “numbering of the population” as the plan not only stops with ID cards, as all information will be passed into the NIR (National Identity Register) creating one central database containing our private information and the widespread use of biometric technology for mass fingerprinting and iris scanning.

ID cards are being sold to the British public as a precaution to terrorism, although no evidence exists to suggest they act as an effective deterrent and ministers have already stated ID cards will not be able to prevent future attacks.

In fact, experts state ID cards diminishes security, as the central database opens new opportunities for identity thieves and data fraudsters.

Privacy advocates have listed over 20 problems with the scheme including

• Discrimination
• Lifelong surveillance
• Identity fraud
• Benefit fraud and abuse of public services
• Spiralling costs
• Untested technologies
• Unsecured and costly technologies
• Severe punishments may be inflicted without judicial process
• Any person can be added to the Register without their consent
• No duty to ensure that such data is accurate, or criterion of accuracy

The technology used is riddled with errors, open to attacks and the chance that you or I could become an ‘un-person’ is fast becoming a reality.

The Conservative Party are also making noise about the plans, with Shadow Home Secretary David Davis recently writing to Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell.

“I urge you to consider very carefully the government’s position, in advance of the roll-out of the scheme later this year,” the letter said. “As a matter of financial prudence, it is incumbent upon you to ensure that public money is not wasted, and contractual obligations are not incurred, investing in a scheme with such a high risk of not being implemented.”

For more information and to find out what you can do to prevent national ID cards being enforced go to http://www.no2id.net and http://www.defy-id.org.uk

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