ID cards... REALLY?!?

Do you really want ID cards? It reminds me of the phrase "Ihre papieren bitte" - "your papers please" - from countless WW2 films.





What are your thoughts that, like the current passports, they will have RFID chips in them - making you trackable anywhere?





Do you really think an integrated database would be adequately protected by the Government - wouldn't it make a FAR better target than the Crown Jewels for organised criminals... the PERFECT crime target!?





If Adobe spend millions on protecting their products and they get cracked within days by the Russian mafia (maybe with the help of their security services), what chance have our corrupt and incompetent politicians got of stopping people like this from all manner of theft and fraud?





Does anyone trust our politicians on this - apart from Sun readers?

ID cards... REALLY?!?
Well, if I were a (slightly dimwitted) 7yr old, I would be answering that ID cards are a great idea because "I have nothing to hide", and the thought of implanting RFID chips into my buttocks was "cool". :)





I know a bit about RFID technology because I did a case study about them when I was a student. (Information systems is one of my "expertise"). It is no longer just half the size of a grain of rice, oh no, it is now almost invisible - known as RFID "Powder". Used in inventory control, it can be placed in any item so a passing mobile scanner can basically scan your ID, and every item that you have bought in your house containing the chip. Future burglars couldn't have it any easier, and future governments %26amp; corporations can have access to the most detailed spending habits of individuals than ever before. There will no longer be any point in putting up CCTV cameras when RFID scanners can track your movements from cradle to the grave by identifying you by the shoes or clothes you bought. It's just a matter of time.





ID cards makes it easier for all kinds of jobsworths to stop you from going about your lawful business and demand you to produce it - everyone from traffic wardens to bouncers to boost their self-important egos. If I wanted that nonsense I'd move to California or China.





It's always difficult for some people to imagine the consequences, but I would urge them to take their personal privacy and civil liberties seriously before they regret it.
Reply:Danke shon, old boy. :) Ginger %26amp; Stinky will be pleased with the points. Seriously, I know of at least 2 research labs who are onto long range RFID scanners, so it won't be long until we see the technology implemented. Gillette was the 1st company to use RFID in the supermarkets 4-5 yrs ago. Report Abuse

Reply:Yes, lets have ID cards. I have nothing to hide and who cares if the Government knows where I am? If they are that interested in where people like me are, then they must have boring lives.





I can totally understand the argument against them however when we are being inundated by immigrants and when we have the threat of terrorism, I'm not against them. And, don't get me wrong, I have no problem in letting foreign people come here legally to work or to escape their own countries, it's the illegal ones I am referring to. The ones who can't work legally, dodge the tax system and cause crime.





I am not desperate for ID cards to be implemented, but I'm not really against it to be honest.
Reply:They've had ID books in South Africa for ages, and about 8 years ago, they combined them with the driver's licence.





Over there, there's nothing "Big Brother" about it - it's simply used to prove who you are which protects you when you're applying for bank accounts, mobile phone contracts, mortgages etc.





However, I think that this government won't be able to leave it as a simple system, and will employ all their recently acquired skills in nannying us to the n-th degree. I shudder to think how they'll mess it up.
Reply:I don't like it, and truly think it's nothing more than further invasion of our privacy. From what I understand it's going to be worldwide...nowhere to run to get away from it.





Yes, it sounds like Nazi Germany....with smart chips added.....the greater majority of people in this world do not deserve to be treated like this!
Reply:No I don't criminals are tagged I haven't killed or maimed innocent Iraqi's nor train passengers.
Reply:*writes protest letter*





Everyone should be flooding the Houses of Parliment or No.10's mail box.
Reply:No its, "Handz offver your PAPERS!!! or you VILL be shot!!!"
Reply:ID cards present no threat to citizens who are prepared to behave like mindless sheep and follow along meekly with whatever murderous atrocities their government turns it's hand to. If however you are not a mindless pap brained dullard then you are a threat to the supremacy of the state and you are exactly the type of citizenry that ID cards are designed to identify ready to be singled out for monitoring and subsequent persecution by the state. I have seen the authorities attitudes to dissent enough times to know what their intentions are. I saw an octogenarian veteran of the labour party manhandled and thrown out of the party conference by Blair's brownshirts for uttering the word "Nonsense" during Obergruppenfuhrer Jack Straw's address to conference. I have seen the police photographing every face at anti war protest rallies. I have seen police sneaking around the car parks at antiwar rallies looking for any excuse to harass dissenters. Our government are our enemy now and our pathetic sham of an electoral system is the tool they use to justify their dictatorship.