Watching Question Time last night and listening to everyone on there disagreeing with the introduction of ID cards, can someone please explain why they are being introduced?
First it was to stop terrorism. So if the London bombers carried id cards we'd have stopped them? I think not.
Now it is to stop ID theft. How long after they are introduced will someone be able to clone them and become you? Surely this makes ID theft more attractive? The implications of a lost or stolen card could be incredible. Are there really going to be fingerprinting and/or retinal scanning machines in all the banks and building societies etc.?
So can anyone come up with the REAL reason this will be imposed on us?
Incidently, although having an id card was 'voluntary' in the Labour Manifesto at the last election now it appears that after 2008 you won't get a passport without an id card. I make that 'compulsory'.
s04pb0x6 Thank you, much better for that!
First it was to stop terrorism. So if the London bombers carried id cards we'd have stopped them? I think not.
Now it is to stop ID theft. How long after they are introduced will someone be able to clone them and become you? Surely this makes ID theft more attractive? The implications of a lost or stolen card could be incredible. Are there really going to be fingerprinting and/or retinal scanning machines in all the banks and building societies etc.?
So can anyone come up with the REAL reason this will be imposed on us?
Incidently, although having an id card was 'voluntary' in the Labour Manifesto at the last election now it appears that after 2008 you won't get a passport without an id card. I make that 'compulsory'.
s04pb0x6 Thank you, much better for that!