ID cards - government FORGOT to buy the card readers

[Bluejuice]

UK spends billions on high-tech IDs, forgets to buy card readers

Except this isn't like buying an SD card then realising your computer doesn't have a card reader. This is £4.4bn frittered away on a much derided and currently useless scheme.

UNBELIEVABLE

 

[severnside gull]

our civil service is the envy of the world (or how to follow government orders while achieving their own objectives)

 

[beorhthelm]

...a much derided and currently useless scheme.

currently useless? that not going to change, ID cards wont solve a single problem being touted as justification. this is one of the biggest frauds in our time, we are being robbed alot of money for something that cannot do what it claims. imagine what that money spent on police, immigration and dss fraud detection could actually achieve.

 

[Horsham Gull]

 

[Mowgli]

Would i be right in thinking that if you say had your wallet stolen with that in it, you would be slightly f***ed?

 

[NMH]

I wouldn't believe everything you read on those sites.
Banks are apparently lined up to use these id cards in tandem as credit cards.

Building readers for them, if they are widely distributed, isn't impossible is it?
All I see, is that the cards have been put out first, with the readers to follow.

Not too keen on the 'Big Brother' aspects of these kinds of things though. With passports, credit and id cards, you will be trackable throughout the World, and everything you do, every penny you own, will be documented.

At first, these cards will be purported to be for foreign nationals, but ultimately it's heading towards everyone having a numerical identity.

Similarities with Hitler's numbering of concentration camp prisoners, and Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil' spring to mind.

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[NMH]

Anyone who ever lived as an 'illegal alien' (ahem, just a couple of years, before I got my green card) might relate just a little, to this bit;

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[TWOCHOICEStom]

hmm.. not a massive deal I wouldn't imagine, companies will be falling over themselves to roll them out when they're due to be live.

 

[Stoo82]

I cant beleve that they are still going to go ahead with ID cards. Such a waste of money in a time of ression. We have to pay for the things twice!! Once as tax payers and another as an indevidual.

Boooo ID cards. I have a passport anyway!!

 

[London Calling]

read an interesting report yeasterday on google can set up a system with your consent to track you and your friends via phone's pc's etc.

I assume Governments already have and can use this technology.

 

[Bluejuice]

read an interesting report yeasterday on google can set up a system with your consent to track you and your friends via phone's pc's etc.

I assume Governments already have and can use this technology.

You mean Google Latitude

Google wants to play Big Brother My Digital Sister

Scary stuff, although admittedly also rather handy

 

[Gazwag]

read an interesting report yeasterday on google can set up a system with your consent to track you and your friends via phone's pc's etc.

I assume Governments already have and can use this technology.

it was mentioned on TV last night, the technology has been in use by the police for ages

 

[beorhthelm]

Scary stuff

you have to install it though.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

it was mentioned on TV last night, the technology has been in use by the police for ages

When they collar someone for murder/armed robbery they use CCTV , mobile phone records (cellphone sites track your movement even if the mobile is switched off) , credit card usage to prove they have the right person to back up forensic evidence.

 

[Gritt23]

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

If that story was actually true I think you'd find it as a slightly more high profile story.

 

[NMH]

When they collar someone for murder/armed robbery they use CCTV , mobile phone records (cellphone sites track your movement even if the mobile is switched off) , credit card usage to prove they have the right person to back up forensic evidence.

You are even trackable by your Nectar cards, and other store cards!