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Story: Banks fear ID cards have lost useful features

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Another one bites the dust

So yet another sector that the Home Office were holding up as being the reason for having an ID card has gone by the wayside. We know, because even ministers agree, that the UK ID card scheme won't stop terrorism. Other responsible bodies have agreed that it also won't stop identity theft (it will likely make it worse in fact), or benefits cheating or illegal immigration, organised crime, pavement fouling (that's a job for anti-terrorist laws) or even fraudulent library loans.

The only thing stopping the Home Office from getting up on their hind legs and admitting that the whole scheme is a complete waste of public funds, is their ever present arrogance. They simply cannot admit that they are human, and therefore fallible and have indeed made a monumental booboo on this one.

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