Hi-tech Cassandras condemn ID cards

Even security industry insiders have significant doubts about ID cards.

a biometric scan in the US had failed because it concluded that a man who later went bald and had a wrinkled forehead had an upside-down face.

There are loads of other sobering facts about ID cards in the article.
And then there's this article reminding us that perhaps we don't want to entrust our identities to the government given their track record on databases.
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