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Story: ID must 'engage consumers' hearts and minds'

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Don't want either

What I take from this is that the HO can't even bring themselves to take heed of their own paid, expert advice. They would rather preempt unfavourable reports like this with High-Spin to try and flavour people's minds before they read it .. they would rather commission surveys that incompletely inform before asking leading questions .. in fact they would rather do anything before taking note of their masters'(*) wishes and scrapping the idea completely.

(*) In case the reader misunderstood; by ".. their master's ..", I did of course mean us, not President Brown and co .. and I wasn't being ironic either!

After all of the underhanded, duplicitous and downright dirty behaviour to get this scheme online, I do not want *any* kind of ID scheme that comes from this lot. Once they have their hands on the data, I have no confidence that they will handle it with the respect it deserves. This isn't paranoia, this is being able to read the reports over the last months and years of great chunks of highly sensitive data just walking out the door.

To my mind, a lot, if not most of the stuff in the report makes perfect sense, but it is not enough to properly protect us and with something quite this powerful, not enough is nowhere near. You can set up all the electric fences, mine fields and attack dogs you like around something, but if you leave a path open through it, the rest is just expensive window dressing.

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