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at 12:51:12 on Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Christine Catton <[log in to unmask]>
writes
>I thought it said two - but I lost the will to live before I reached the
>end of the document.
It appears to say that the ID card will hold two, but the database will
hold all ten.
>I did, however, spot one potentially fatal flaw:
>
>(u) an address in the United Kingdom to which an ID card can be returned,
>if found and;
>(v) contact details that can be used to make general enquiries about ID
>cards
>One of the big failures of the poll tax was that the nice middle class
>family people who devised it don't move house three or four times a year -
>or live in places that "because of the address" cannot be delivered to by
>ordinary mail, so have to default to the Secure Mail Service non-delivery
>option. Will the onus be on the card holder to inform the government's
>identity card agency every time they move - and will it be able to cope?
That address is surely where to send a lost&found one to - ie a central
facility.
"Address of the cardholder" is the almost same problem as driving
licences, but as it seemingly doesn't appear on the card, the holders
are less likely to notify the authorities of changes.
--
Roland Perry
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