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Story: Schneier: ID cards will worsen ID theft

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I can't wait until they tie this in with the NHS, so that unless they can verify who you are, you don't get treated, should be fun when the database crashes just after a major incident....

I can just imagine the scene when a hospital's civil servant shill enters the waiting rooms of a hospital...
"I'm sorry folks, but even though you've just been involved in a bus accident, and are all going to die if we don't treat you, the database is down and we can't prove you're entitled to care, so please make your way to the exits."

But in all seriousness, his concerns are probably bang on the money with regard to them being used to control people - look at how Labour have consistantly dealt with protests of any sort, hell, look at how protests in the last 25 years have been dealt with by various governments... The future where they have total information awareness and can effectively shut down any protest no matter how trivial at a touch of a button doesn't even bare thinking about.

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