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Originally Posted by towny
I really do believe that Government's natural urge to pin down and control everything should be curbed, and I don't accept the suggested 'advantages' of an ID card. People will be people; they will find other ways to misbehave.
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I'm sort of neither for nor against it (ID cards, not the rapture, I'm against that, but that's another story
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If it was brought in, as a law abiding citizen who already has a passport and driving licence and national security card, it wouldn't make much difference, just an extra form of ID which always comes in handy when getting credit/hiring cars/joining blockbusters.
I think that the only really acceptable bio scan ID would be irus, as you don't leave that behind when you've been somewhere (unlike DNA or fingerprints, and of course fingerprints are far from perfect forms of ID).
As has been mentioned, criminals will eventually be able to forge near identical copies, unless in order to be used, they must always be checked against the central database, which of course will restrict their uses.
I'm invisioning something like at a police station where they swipe the card and it brings up your details with image/irus scan so that it can be checked against the person presenting the card.
If visual checks are all that's going to be used, like someone looking at your driving licence, then that's no proof that you are the same person as the name on the card (ok your pic might be the same as you but that could be forged, where as the pic that the database has can't) so it invalidates the card's purpose.