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Originally Posted by TheNorm
I'm not disagreeing with you (not yet anyway  ) but your points raise two further points:
1. If you wander off in a city you will be filmed by many, many CCTV cameras. Without your permission being asked. |
True, however, unless there have been great advances in face recognition (which, last time I checked was about 50-60% accurate), they still won't know who I am..
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2. The government already holds a great deal of data about you. I don't think ID cards will add to that.
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True. Beyond some biometric data, the card itself won't add much, although if the data is stored on the card, I hope they aren't RFID cards. Don't really like the idea of someone being able to steal my data just by holding a reciever near me (as has been demonstrated with the US RFID passport system).
However, the main objection I have is that we appear to be moving toward being a police state, because of some percieved threat from terrorism.