Ministers plan to sell your ID card details to raise cash

[T_i_B]

Doesn't this just fill you with confidence? :eyes:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=649780

Personal details of all 44 million adults living in Britain could be sold to private companies as part of government attempts to arrest spiralling costs for the new national identity card scheme, set to get the go-ahead this week.

The Independent on Sunday can today reveal that ministers have opened talks with private firms to pass on personal details of UK citizens for an initial cost of £750 each.

The opening of commercial talks contradicts a promise made when the Home Office launched a public consultation on ID cards in April last year, when officials pledged that "unlike electoral registers, the National Identity Register will not be open for any general access or inspection."

A report by the London School of Economics is to show that the card's cost to individuals will be around £200. In addition, firms could be charged up to £750 for technology that would allow them instantly to verify customers' identity through iris scanning or finger-printing, according to official documents.

[mrfrapp]

1. no2id

The real reason for the ID card scheme: it's a cash cow.

http://www.no2id.net/

[oscar111]

2. what form should savings be kept in so thieves not get at it?

what form is most hard to steal?

CD's? stock? treasurye bonds? corpor bonds? reits?

land?

please put in rank order, hardest to steal at the bott end.
Old master oil paintings and vintage wine and Lambourghinis are not a choice LOL.

thanks.

[fedsron2us]

5. You would have to rely on the old favourites

such as cash, precious metals and jewelry which you would have to either keep at home or bury in a little treasure hoard like the pirates of old or the unfortunate inhabitants of the later Roman Empire. Of course, you run the risk that your local neighbourhood burglar will find out about your stash and disappear with it. However, even then you will have the comfort that it will probably have gone to a more honest home than the corrupt politicians and corporate thieves who rule our world. Just goes to show how crazy things are becoming.

[Vladimir]

3. Too predictable

its a shite scheme being pushed by a shite government for shite reasons, and I would like to see Blair go fuck himself with a broomstick.

[fedsron2us]

4. This is such a crap idea

that I find myself in the astonishing position of agreeing with the Tory party's David Davis on the matter

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4742992

[D-Notice]

6. I'd agree with anyone who says this:

He said the cards were “unnecessary, unworkable and unlikely to make our streets and communities any safer”., no matter what party they're a member of.

This is also true:

In an article for The Mail on Sunday, Mr Davis said: “In Labour’s Britain there is a sense that we are all now guilty until proven innocent.

And this:

He added that the cost of carrying card was “another stealth tax”.. I was wondering why nobody had mentioned this ealier

[bennywhale]

7. I won't have one. If i'm provided withn one i'll burn it. Fuck New

Labour and the authoritarian nutcases that inhabit the home office. Fuck them all. They try to fingerprint me or scan my childs eyeball they'll have a fucking fight on their hands