Looks like, for from dampening ardour, the recent questionning of the practicalities of the national identity register has only led to a search for partners in the folly; come on down private sector. Don't know about you, but I find the prospect of greater sharing of my personal data with the private sector even more worrying; the more people in the loop the more abuse is likely and statistically I -or you- are more likely to be a victim of the abuses than to win the national lottery (naturally in my case since a don't enter!). In fact, i seem to recall mentioning that I thought it likely that the NIR data would be sold off to help government finances because I didn't think that the temptation would be resisted for ever. I didn't realise that they'd succomb to temptation even before the scheme was off the drawing board. What price assurances now?
I'm also distressed to find myself agreeing with a Tory on the matter -or at least hoping he's right in the first instance and fearing he's right in the final.
'This is an admission that the government's ID card system as it stands is destined to fail without something else to prop it up. It is regrettable that what the government is proposing will actually worsen the assault on privacy without materially improving security.'
The Observer | UK News | Brown to let shops share ID card data:
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