Britain begins national identity card plan

It's both coercive, expensive and useless. It won't do anything to prevent terrorism, and as for identity fraud - well, any kind of ID can be copied or faked up. It'll just create another marketing opportunity for forgers. There's also a problem that as part of the ID card scheme, the government is going to be gathering more data on people and keeping it on databases which will be available to too many people. But for me, the bottom line is that I choose not to carry an ID card.

If privacy concerns can be addressed, ID cards are good. We do not, however, want to be living in any big brother environment were business people can look up all our private data. Much less the government doing so. I really do believe that everyone in the country should be fingerprinted and have a DNA profile run. It would make it really difficult for someone to get away with a crime. It would also help police find near-matches by which they could identify if the culprit were a cousin or near-relative of someone else in the system. That, of course, is prohibitively expensive. This is where reality sets in. The other detractor from ID cards is religious zealots convinced this is the "sign of the beast" which will be needed to buy or sell stuff. I don't place a lot of faith in the book of revelations mind you. The requirement of ID cards, however, might seem reasonably similar to the depictions by some. And this is the point that I raise.

I am all for combating terrorism and identity fraud but I don't think these cards would work well. Someone of the same nationality would be able to use them and plus have access to other info we might not want known to all. So I feel that they should look for another way. Never know if they can make chips for animals with all their information on it they may be able to make it like that for humans. I mean we have seen it in enough movies that install chips and all on people with their vital information it would also help in finding runaways and kidnapped children and knowing information on murdered people. But I guess a chips isn't going to be happening in our future anytime soon.

I don't like it. I think it will be a breakdown of civil liberties. The government shouldn't be all up in your personal space like that. I think that it might work for a while, but it sounds like it's just too invading.