Australia sees sense and scraps National ID plan
Discussion
The incoming Labour government has scrapped plans for a National ID cars system. This card would have contained a RFID chip with name, DoB, gender, address, digitised signature, card number, expiry date (card, not holder 
) and Medicare number, with provision to add further data at any later date.
The previous administration had repeated painted the card as a "Human Services Access Card", but opponents pointed out that it would have effectively been a National Identity Card. Sound familiar?
There is great opposition to the American REAL ID card scheme, with 18 State Legislatures having passed resolutions refusing implementation of the Act (passed by the Federal government three years ago, now with its deadline extended by over a year and a half), and 20 more with Bills pending.
In the UK, Brown merely reiterates that the National Identity Database has been scrapped, with the proposed system to be linked instead to existing databases ... some of which (National Insurance Number for example) are inaccurate (unaccounted numbers, no record of contributions) and a goodly number of which have been 'lost' (HMRC, DVLA, DVLNI, NHS Trusts, etc.)
When will the government see sense? Sorry ... stupid question. Only when there is an election and it becomes a point on which it could be lost.
Streaky
) and Medicare number, with provision to add further data at any later date.The previous administration had repeated painted the card as a "Human Services Access Card", but opponents pointed out that it would have effectively been a National Identity Card. Sound familiar?
There is great opposition to the American REAL ID card scheme, with 18 State Legislatures having passed resolutions refusing implementation of the Act (passed by the Federal government three years ago, now with its deadline extended by over a year and a half), and 20 more with Bills pending.
In the UK, Brown merely reiterates that the National Identity Database has been scrapped, with the proposed system to be linked instead to existing databases ... some of which (National Insurance Number for example) are inaccurate (unaccounted numbers, no record of contributions) and a goodly number of which have been 'lost' (HMRC, DVLA, DVLNI, NHS Trusts, etc.)
When will the government see sense? Sorry ... stupid question. Only when there is an election and it becomes a point on which it could be lost.
Streaky
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