What is an ID Card?
The government is planning to establish a system that will involve unprecedented collation and monitoring of personal information. The House of Lords said the Identity Cards Bills name is misleading. This is about more than plastic cards! An ID card, as part of the National Identity Scheme, will impose upon every adult legally resident in this country, including foreign nationals, a card which will link to the National Identity Register, holding fifty pieces of information about each of them. The ID card itself will be the part of the National Identity Register (NIR) you will carry in your wallet. This technology brings many pitfalls, including enormous cost, a one stop shop for organised criminals and intrusion into civil liberties. (More about the pitfalls of the scheme.
