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Matth · 14-01-2005, 23:40

It's a step in the dark, and for an uncertain improvement in security (if any), it means a definite loss in privacy, and a certain cost of uncertain magnitude, for whatever fee they intend extorting with menaces, the whole project is very likely to follow the same lack of schedule and cost control as any other!

Forget the voluntary phase, to even hope to deliver on supposed promises, it would have to be compulsory, and even then, the same people who would posses an illegal firearm, smuggle drugs etc. are hardly likely to worry about not having an ID card, or will be very pleased to have a fraudulently obtained one, since it would seem that it will be trusted without question.

I'd say we will be less safe, if we replace individual judgement with "foolproof but fallible" technology.

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Matth Inactive Join Date: Mar 2004 Services: BB:M, TV:XL, Phone:M, Loyalty Posts: 2,516	Re: ID Cards in Parliament. It's a step in the dark, and for an uncertain improvement in security (if any), it means a definite loss in privacy, and a certain cost of uncertain magnitude, for whatever fee they intend extorting with menaces, the whole project is very likely to follow the same lack of schedule and cost control as any other! Forget the voluntary phase, to even hope to deliver on supposed promises, it would have to be compulsory, and even then, the same people who would posses an illegal firearm, smuggle drugs etc. are hardly likely to worry about not having an ID card, or will be very pleased to have a fraudulently obtained one, since it would seem that it will be trusted without question. I'd say we will be less safe, if we replace individual judgement with "foolproof but fallible" technology.