Do you think that the national identity card, proposed for UK citizens, is a good idea or does it impinge on civil liberties?
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Little_Piggy
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I don't think it impinges on civil liberties. It has the potential to do so, but everything would depend on how the system was set up and carried out. If there were some serious protections in place it could work. BUT it would be a smart card - electronic record on a strip. There would have to be anti-counterfeit measures and anti-identity-theft measures. There would be tax costs for the system to make sure it kept ahead of the hackers. Of course, there are hackers into existing government record-keeping systems too - so I don't know that it would be that much worse a problem. It would simplify quite a few things. I don't see it as any more an incursion on civil liberties than a social security card is.
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