E-Business Library > Niels Bjergstrom on national ID systems

[The Identity Corner] With regard to the UK bill I am not going to argue with it here although - technical issues aside - it certainly is an obnoxious piece of legislation, moving the relationship between state and citizen several hundred years back, introducing important components of a totalitarian state by stealth - the ID card part is in a way the least important. It is a piece of legislation that does not belong in a democratic country (which of course, given the role of the unelected House of Lords, the UK isn’t anyway).

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Spy.org.ukhttp://www.spy.org.uk [Spy.org.uk] Spy Blog: ID Cards Archives: Send your reasoned responses or just an email expressing your opposition to the specific detail of this controversial "Big Brother" legislation which will impose a compulsory poll tax and centralised biometric database on all 60 million people in the UK, will cost literally billions of pounds and which cannot hope to actually achieve any of the ever changing vague benefits which the Government keeps spinning and changing its mind on exactly what the scheme is intended to achieve. This has all the hallmarks of a major Government Information and Communications Technology project disaster.

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