My personal problem with photo ID is not so much the civil liberty issue - though I do very much dislike the idea of being required to prove who I am - but what they seem to be planning on doing with the database.
If they've got this database, the odds are that they'll be mining it for security reasons - and I suspect it'll also be seen as terribly comprehensive and trustworthy. Which it won't be, of course, they never are. It looks really easy to insert false data into it at the beginning - especially given the, er, estimable track record of the people doing this.
The other problem, of course, is that I don't have any confidence in the government not to sell the data to their dodgy business contacts.
I'd also rather they didn't start relating to us as database entries rather than people... but I suspect they do already.
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Date: 2005-05-17 10:11 am (UTC)If they've got this database, the odds are that they'll be mining it for security reasons - and I suspect it'll also be seen as terribly comprehensive and trustworthy. Which it won't be, of course, they never are. It looks really easy to insert false data into it at the beginning - especially given the, er, estimable track record of the people doing this.
The other problem, of course, is that I don't have any confidence in the government not to sell the data to their dodgy business contacts.
I'd also rather they didn't start relating to us as database entries rather than people... but I suspect they do already.