There may be some hope that a PM who is concerned about costs and elecoral success may just find a way to pull the plug on this farce. So on one hand we have an independent academic study group finding vindication for their earlier findings which were poo-pooed at the time.
And so it seems to me that Charles Arthur is right to write:
ID cards scheme "getting out of control" - Public Sector - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
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the LSE's Identity Project group - long-term critics of the ID cards scheme - has warned the government's report reveals "not a project that is progressing well but rather one that appears to be getting out of control, despite the best efforts of the Identity and Passport Service to minimise the risks and costs of the scheme". For example the dropping of iris biometrics and reuse of existing government databases should have had a noticeable effect on the costs of the scheme but this is not the case, the LSE report claims.
And so it seems to me that Charles Arthur is right to write:
Precisely what will it take for the government to abandon its pursuit of ID cards? Last week the Home Office issued its latest estimate of the cost of implementing this vast IT boondoggle, which has risen 12% - another £640m - in the past six months, while shifting £510m of past and future spending over to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. That means you and I will be paying £100-odd for an "e-passport" and ID card package which ... when did we ask for them again? The last Labour election manifesto called them "voluntary"... this summer a new face will appear at 10 Downing Street's door. Will he have the sense to kill a bad project before it becomes electorally terminal?
ID cards scheme "getting out of control" - Public Sector - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
Technorati Tags: ID_cards, NIR, UK, costs
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