Understatement Of The Day
From the BBC:
ID cards ‘could threaten privacy’
What do you mean could threaten privacy? They most certainly do! And beyond that, it is also possible to cliam that they don’t just “threaten” privacy, but they breach it.
ID cards are simply wrong. They are a massive - and completely unnecessary - intrusion in to our lives. Our lives do not belong to the governemnt, and neither does our information.
We are all far more than a magnetic strip or microchip in a plastic card.
I trust the government - not just this government, but any government - with my data about as far as I can throw them. Whilst it is not poissible for me to give the government none of my data, at least at the moment it is all separated amongst different databases and departments, so that it all cannot be stolen in one go.
The compulsory ID card scheme would unify all of my data in one place. And no databse or system is so secure as to be able to prevent all attempts to break in to it. Especially with this governments less-than-exemplary IT record.
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