Monday, November 29, 2004

Identity Cards

The next big anti terrorist idea is to give everyone in the UK an ID card. How is this expected to protect the UK from terrorists? Passports can already be faked, carrying an ID card will not be obligatory, if you are requested to show your ID, you will have seven days grace (presumably terrorists will believe it to be a fair cop and will turn up at the police station with their fake ID).

How will it be organised, who should pay the £10bn estimated cost of it and why will it take so long to implement? ID cards were issued at the start of World War 2 when they were required, not six years later when they were no longer required. How did our grandparents achieve this before the first true computers had even been invented?

Not only is there a £10bn cost, but each individual will have to pay an additional £85 for their own card. What's that all about!?!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'll implement the system for £5 billion!

I don't really see anything too wrong with ID cards, most people already have them in the form of a passport.