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Story: ID card 'chip and PIN' proposal raises security fears

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Posted by: pround (Thursday 16 April 2009, 10:52 AM)

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Part of the push to make it mandatory

This is just a good way of the government effectively making the card mandatory. If you have to do a chip and pin verification to access services then you have to have the card. The government seems to be clutching at any way to increase the need to have this card and this would be the 'killer app'. It will be a case of have the card or you can't use any public services. These jokers really make me sick, this has got nothing to do with national security its all about control and tracking. Chip and Pin makes it easy for any organisation to mandate use of the card and therefore for the government to track its user.

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