In the light of the recent information loss blunders, has anyone changed their opinions on uk id cards?

As a lot of people were apparently 'un-phased' by the uk government's scheme to bring in id cards and centralised national identity register, have the recent scandles involving the loss of millions and millions of peoples personal data changed your opinion?


If we are trusting the government to look after personal data and they have already shown incompetence. Do you feel that the bringing in id cards (and the register) will only make it easier for fraudsters?

In the light of the recent information loss blunders, has anyone changed their opinions on uk id cards?
Who said a lot of people were "unfazed"? If you mean a significant number are in favour then I agree with you. I am definitely not in favour, recent blunders or otherwise. I think the whole Idea is ridiculous and totally uneccessary, it will have no effect whatsoever on reducing terrorism or improving security. Billions have already been spent on it and they have still to produce a fool-proof system. My hope is that those who were in favour, or had no real opinion, will be against the idea after all these blunders have been exposed. As for fraudsters, it will only give them something else to steal and clone, only this time it will contain even more information on the individual.
Reply:No. I've always been opposed, and recent events have confirmed that opinion.
Reply:No, they stunk when the only lonely voice against them was the Lib Dems and they still stink now that the Tories and the papers are starting to wake up to the truth.
Reply:I've never been "unphased" by the introduction of I.D cards. I'm bitterly opposed to them. As I am to the biometric passport.


I think that no matter what reassurances the government give us, the fraudsters will find a way round it.