“Trusted to Deliver?”
Ministers are to look at scaling back plans for identity cards in response to the catastrophic loss of the personal information of 25 million people, including their bank records and addresses…
The information commissioner, Richard Thomas, urged ministers yesterday to review the amount of data they intend to amass on the national identity register, and Labour backbenchers previously supportive of ID cards backed his view…
Dr Mireille Levy, head of identity management standards at the Identity and Passport Service, has already conceded that safeguards will depend on civil servants running the programme properly.
She told a conference a week ago: “You can have all the virus checkers and pretty IT you want, but the real problem is people.”
Shall we say this in unison?
There is no patch for stupidity.
ROTFLMAO
I’m keeping that one:
“There is not patch for stupidity.”
They have thousands of cameras EVERYWHERE and they seem to be useless at all.
I actually think it is reasonable — and overdue — to have a national ID card in America.
For starters, I think a forgery-resistant card is necessary for any sort of illegal immigration enforcement.
The trouble is I don’t trust these conservatives to respect my right to privacy. Any big scare and they beg to have the constitution flushed down the toilet.
I thought we already had two id cards ? The SS (gawd what a play on words THIS abbreviation evokes !) and the drivers license ?? Each is equally effective as evidenced by the amount of illegals many of our finest industries employ in labor intensive occupations. You think another burearacracy full of idiot political cronies is a workable solution after what we’ve seen in the last eight years ? I still harken back to a long ago promise about less government by government and more power to the people..I used to read porn too until I learned to just watch politicians..