Identity cards seem to be back on the agenda, the home secretary will today outline the next stage. It is expected that migrant workers from non-EU countries will be the first to be issued with these cards.
While I’m not against ID cards in principle, indeed I carried an ID card for 24 years while in the army, and still do. I have a driving licence with my photo on it, I have a credit and debit card. I also have a ID card that I have to carry around while at work, otherwise I am unable to access certain areas.
The concern I share with many others is the information that will be contained on the card, fingerprints, DNA, social security number, and probably thousands of other bits of information, some no doubt that I’m not aware of myself.
The Government has shown in the last few months it is not capable of preventing this information from falling into the wrong hands. It keeps losing, sorry, the term the Government use is misplace the information. Until the Government provides adequate measures to safe guard our personal details and prevent wholesale fraud then I for one will be getting this type of ID card.
The principle behind it is good, one card to enable us to do everything, but in this day and age it is still not viable. Of course they won’t listen to us, because we the general public are stupid and don’t know what is good for us.
This situation reminds me of Zeitgeist – The Movie, in which it is states that in the future we will have computer chips embedded in our bodies with all our personal information encoded on it, it sounds like science fiction but how long before it becomes science fact!
