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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
"Rizz, if principles aren't important to you, that's your business."
Nice sweeping statement there and as you don't know me at all an ignorant one to make being honest. Just because i have a different opinion to you i am unprincipled thats great logic.
"your DNA would be anywhere near a crime scene"
Everyone is law abiding till they commit a crime which some in society do and when they do being able to quickly link them to a crimescene could speed processes up a little and also may reduce the number of people wrongly arrested. I am not saying this is a perfect scheme i never have said that but i also do not have a problem with it as in one form or another most information this will hold will already be out there in some form.
But then again maybe the opposers are right and those of us that support it are just unprincipled non thinking idiots sleep walking into information slavery  . Although the use of such terms in a debate hardly gives me cause to believe anything else that the people using those terms say is worthy of much attention anyway.
I am all for a debate but if you have to insult or call someones principles into question in order to deabte it maybe your not ready for a debate and you should take a step back and ask yourself if that approach is the right one to use in any debate on any subject. |
Steady on, I didn't insult you, or even imply that you are a non-thinking idiot who was "sleep walking into information slavery", yet you have typed that under a quote from me, which implies you are replying to me.
I personally have no problem with carrying an ID card itself. I have carried a card with me that could be used as a form of ID since I was about 13 (yes, I am counting bank cards).
What I do have a problem with is the amount of information that will be accessible via the card, and that storage of some of that information implies that the government is thinking we are all guilty until proven innocent (I have never commited a crime, and am never going to commit a crime, so why on earth do the Police need my DNA?).
I also have a problem with the fact the card itself will store a lot of information, and the back end database (as explained above) will make a nice central point of storage for hackers to attack.
Also, if I understand it correctly, they have been looking at RFID cards (similar to the Oyster card in London) for storage. Fine, these make things easier (no more pesky getting it out of your wallet when asked to), but they can also be read from several metres away.
Fine, so they may be encrypted. Given about six-eight months, that will be cracked. The Oyster card has.
So, imagine the scene. You are happily minding your own business, wandering along the street. You don't notice the person sitting in the car next to you apparently playing about with a small device. That device activates and scans your RFID enabled ID card.
Two months later, a card with your details on is scanned near a bank robbery in Leeds. The Robbers used gloves so there is little or no fingerprint evidence, and were wearing balaclavas so that facial ID is difficult.
Then you could end up having to prove you weren't anywhere near a crime scene because someone scanned a card with your ID at that scene, when you were actually at the other end of the country at the time.
And yes, I do carry an Oyster Card, but all that is on it is my TravelCard and a few pounds for prepaid fares (in case of emergency). So, if someone gets access to it, I am not going to be too worried (A few pounds is nothing to worry about, and, let's face it, as long as I can travel on my travel card, I am not worried if someone else does).
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