Apart from the practical difficulties for
a government which seems unable to handle large-scale IT projects, the obvious
objections are: 1) what’s the point if it won’t stop terrorism, 2)
a lot of us wouldn’t trust Mr Blunkett with the neighbourhood
watch, let alone all our personal data. Being a bleeding-heart liberal with
airy-fairy concerns about being banged up for no reason I am against it. And if
they want to waste huge amounts of taxpayers’ money, surely they can just
pour more into
This sounds like a purely political
answer, but then this government has made nearly everything a matter of trust
or otherwise.
M
Mike Morris, Librarian,
ISCA
From: Chartered
Library and Information Professionals [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Amanda Raby
Sent: 19 May 2004 11:34
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: ID Cards, the
National Identity Register and Data Protection
I have no objections to carrying an ID card, and can foresee
many situations in which such a card would be useful.
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