Government intends to bring in Voter ID law.

[Taf]

Originally Posted by Maggy

I have no issue with the idea of having an ID card..

Ditto, I carried my military ID everywhere for well over a decade, and it "opened doors" that would otherwise would have been shut to me.

But I do not want to pay for a civilian ID, and would be wary of what private company was given the contract to issue them and maintain the databases.

Our daughter, almost 28 years old, looks a lot younger so gets denied access to clubs, pubs and other venues. Plus she often gets refused the right to buy alcohol or tobacco. She can't have a (£43) provisional licence due to her disabilities, has no need (yet) of a (£85) passport, has her (£15) Citizen Card ignored, and her French ID card leaves people bewildered.

With all the hoops she had go jump through to open a bank account, I would have thought it easy to just put her photo on her bank card.

[Carth]

Originally Posted by Taf

But I do not want to pay for a civilian ID, and would be wary of what private company was given the contract to issue them and maintain the databases.

Good point about he database issues, it's getting hard to know just who to trust

[heero_yuy]

Trust is a big issue. When El Gov were thinking about a national ID card there was going to be all sorts of data and databases attached to it including medical records and bio-metrics.

Then there was the list of those who would have access to all that data and it was just about every man and his dog in government employ.

The temptation to capitalise that data would be too tempting for most governments.

I'm sure that a voter ID card would be subject to "mission creep" as more parts of government would be wanting to use it for checking other forms of entitlement such as benefits and NHS treatment.