By Martin Brampton
Published: Tuesday 19 October 2004
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Richard
Location
London
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Student
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I would have thought the Home Office would have a giant database already for when it hands out passports as they require lot of personal info and each have an ID number... wouldn't an ID card become a pocket-sized passport?
How many of us carry around our passports with us when we go abroad? I know I do when I use travellers cheques.
Given:
1. the total indifference of politician...
Karen Meidl
I would have thought the Home Office would have a ...
Richard
I value the freedom in the UK of not having to pro...
Paul Smith
This is abolutely spot on. The benefits of ID card...
Anonymous
ID Cards for everyone??? Does this mean that from ...
Paul Wilson
ID's - NHS number and passport or EU id card alrea...
James Button
No, the real question is:
Is it more convenient...
Richard Sarson
So most people want a card eh? Maybe so, most peop...
Ken Hall
So most people want a card eh? maybe so, most peop...
Ken Hall
This is one of these debates where the doomsayers ...
Fred Perkins
I agree that the real issue is the database, and t...
Ian Savell
Disproving the threats...
Of course nobody can ...
Anonymous
High Cost, Low Benefit of Government Regulations:
...
Richard2
Where is the respect for democracy, human rights o...
Anonymous
They're coming at some point. Let's hope that they...
Carl Young
'Only the most sophisticated, and therefore costly...
Neil Barrett
I have my suspicions that we dont really live in a...
jonathan
Think of the cost. BAse it on how much the NHS fia...
Mikal Dunne
As a Christian and ethnic miniority person, I have...
Anonymous
Some brilliant comments here, especially by Ken Ha...
Lee Wardle
How about an alternative model to all these databa...
Anonymous
How about an alternative model to all these databa...
Anonymous
The ID card scheme is the next phase in a much lar...
Luke
Although I am not as perturbed by the intro of ID ...
Richard
It's not the card it's the datatbase and who'll be...
Adair
It's not the card it's the datatbase and who'll be...
Adair
Nectar cards are voluntary. Like the majority of U...
Chris Allonby
Whatever happened to "terrorists must never dictat...
Anonymous
I know that nectar cards are voluntarily, but my p...
Richard
Everything the govt currently holds, and everythin...
Tanya Gibbs
COST EFFECTIVENESS
Sure let's have biometric ID...
Drew Edgar
ID cards will inevitably change the relationship b...
Anonymous
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