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As has been widely reported, a trial of the ID card system, specifically the biometric aspects, found that facial scans failed to identify around a third of the 1,000 trial subjects
The head of the ID card project at the Home Office recently assured a conference of computer trade delegates that these early failures did not matter because the technology will be thoroughly tested after the bill has passed.
In other words, the legislation will be through before we know whether the current technology is good enough to cope. Still, I’m sure everything will be fine.
(Edited by Aranalde at 2:57 pm on July 6, 2005)
This is the governments consultation paper on ID cards.
http://www.ips.gov.uk/NIS-delivery-plan-2008.pdf
You are invited to have your say on this madcap plan by emailing this address;
An absolute pain in the arse. I work in a job where I have to carry one all the time and it puts my head away.
Not only that but it is just another license, another way to extort money from the general public. I had to pay £80 something quid for a passport a couple of years back.
When I moved house I lost the paper bit of my driving license, when I phoned and ordered another one, they said sorry but you have to get another card aswell, we cant just send you the bit of paper. So I had to pay £30 odd pound for both parts.
Government departments love bringing in things like this and then charging us hand over fist to have them, when they are "mandatory".
We have been told that they are bringing them in to increase security, not that they will probably cost about £30 or £40 a time. They are just another "spin doctored" revenue generator.
I say the government can stick their ID cards.
I can see the benefits of them but they should not be compulsory
thats why i object to the scheme and the desire to make them so reeks of the charmless authoritarian streak in this administration
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