Thursday, November 17, 2005
Useless Identity Cards.
Dame Stella Rimington, the former director general of MI5, has condemned the proposed introduction of an identity card scheme, saying the cards would be "absolutely useless" unless they can be made unforgeable. She thinks MI5 are not pressing for the introduction of cards.
The minister in charge of the ID card scheme, Andy Burnham, is desperately defending the cards, saying they will be "almost impossible" to forge.
That'll be right.
The government is not listening, of course. They are determined to go ahead with this disgraceful scheme no matter what anyone thinks, and against all advice.
Surely nobody can now think ID cards are anything to do with preventing terrorism or making the public safer.
And surely no one would believe the government when they claim the cards will be "unforgeable".
Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil liberties pressure group Liberty, described the former security chief's comments as "another nail in the coffin of the massive identity card folly".
I really do hope so - but who has the last and final nail?
ID Cards And The National Database - A Step Too Far
The minister in charge of the ID card scheme, Andy Burnham, is desperately defending the cards, saying they will be "almost impossible" to forge.
That'll be right.
The government is not listening, of course. They are determined to go ahead with this disgraceful scheme no matter what anyone thinks, and against all advice.
Surely nobody can now think ID cards are anything to do with preventing terrorism or making the public safer.
And surely no one would believe the government when they claim the cards will be "unforgeable".
Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil liberties pressure group Liberty, described the former security chief's comments as "another nail in the coffin of the massive identity card folly".
I really do hope so - but who has the last and final nail?
ID Cards And The National Database - A Step Too Far
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