Thursday, August 04, 2005
The government has admitted that it has been guilty of "overselling" the case for a compulsory national identity card scheme in Britain and conceded that it will not prove a panacea for fraud, terrorism or the abuse of public services.
And it seems the only thing the Government is now saying it'll do is be a 'gold standard' in proving someone's identity which, as no government has yet managed to make anything that is widespread which cannot be counterfeited, means it's pointless. The Government has pretty much admitted it's lost the argument on ID Cards. I don't know what it'll take to get them to give up before they waste all our money on it as well.
And it seems the only thing the Government is now saying it'll do is be a 'gold standard' in proving someone's identity which, as no government has yet managed to make anything that is widespread which cannot be counterfeited, means it's pointless. The Government has pretty much admitted it's lost the argument on ID Cards. I don't know what it'll take to get them to give up before they waste all our money on it as well.
