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Originally Posted by punky
To be honest, I am wondering wether it would be. It hardly has any support, and not even from the people who fighting terrorism is their #1 priority, who Tony tried to pander it to. They also underestimated the amount of people, for who fighting terrorism is a #1 priority too it looks like.
They have manage to find a good excuse to drop it... If they pick it back up, surely they are just asking for trouble. They'd better off hoping the issue goes away quietly.
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Oh God, I'm agreeing with Punky again. Guess I must be overdue that holiday
The whole ID cards thing will be a costly and useless mess. The scope for c*ck up on the IT side alone scares me given governments' (of both persuasions) general inability to get any technlogy project done to budget, deadline and specification. The fact that ID cards are unlikely to actually reduce the risk of terorist threat also makes me wonder what the real agenda (not for long though). ID cards coupled with those new speed cameras that read your plate and calculate your average speed over some distance, plus mobile phone records (I could go on)... the scope for abuse is immense.