Comments on: ID cards - compulsory or not?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:15:19 +0000

Oh, Jo. The thing about the ID card is not that it will prove your ID more securely than other, more traditional ways, it is that it will become your ID. Once your details are on the National Identity Register, you will have to prove that you are that person.

Eh? - well… Any random IT errors that question your identity will make you wrong, because the database will be the only valid point of reference. therefore, over time, first tens, then thousands of people will have no valid ID. That is before organised criminal gangs start to ammend the data base to switch their biometrics for someone elses…

Remember - the database is the problem, not the card.

By: Jo

Jo — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:34:08 +0000

Yep, it’ll be no help at all. Ever. In any circumstance. I mean, why do we need something as unique as fingerprints and face scans to identify ourselves when all we really need to take out an enormous loan on our house is to prove who we are with a gas bill, a phone bill and a paper birth certificate. It was good enough for my parents, so it’s good enough for me. No way on earth bits of paper like that could have been forged by a 19 year old chimp with a cheap laptop and an inkjet printer, nosiree!

And that attitude is, of course, why identity theft is going through the roof. And why we need something a tiny little bit more unique than three bits of paper and an honest face in the wired world. Don’t believe me though. No, no, I might be bias. Ask Experion.

By: 3 year old kid

3 year old kid — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:14:39 +0000

Forcing to have an ID card IS a declaration of WAR on the UK public.

Remember the poll tax?

We won that and we will win this.

By: Just-Me

Just-Me — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:32:01 +0000

Just a fact we must live with!
If not Labour then the Tories will U-Turn and compulsory they will be .. just a matter of time.

Maybe have another war to detract from the issue :/