Pity I'm stuck away at work. I used to work on a 6 sq. mile secure (bonded warehouse / strategic) site with 120 access points with hierarchy privilege and logical progression and approx 3000 card access holders, dual redundant central processing / database, failsafe stand alone, cctv, intercomm / central control centre... I therefore have practical reservations about a National ID 'card' and it's reasons when we already have passports, driving licences and national insurance numbers... I am also concerned about the companies that may tender to provide technology and servicing to such a system and their connections - business or personal to government, their departments and personell. I am also somewhat cynical, in that persons who wish to evade and live outside such a system for illicit or criminal reasons will be determined to find a way to do so anyway...
If our world and government were a bit more perfect, then I would not be too objectional to a benign multipurpose 'secure' id system that offered practical benefit to the population as well as society as a whole - but meanwhile back in the real world...
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Date: 2005-06-27 07:47 pm (UTC)I used to work on a 6 sq. mile secure (bonded warehouse / strategic) site with 120 access points with hierarchy privilege and logical progression and approx 3000 card access holders, dual redundant central processing / database, failsafe stand alone, cctv, intercomm / central control centre...
I therefore have practical reservations about a National ID 'card' and it's reasons when we already have passports, driving licences and national insurance numbers...
I am also concerned about the companies that may tender to provide technology and servicing to such a system and their connections - business or personal to government, their departments and personell.
I am also somewhat cynical, in that persons who wish to evade and live outside such a system for illicit or criminal reasons will be determined to find a way to do so anyway...
If our world and government were a bit more perfect, then I would not be too objectional to a benign multipurpose 'secure' id system that offered practical benefit to the population as well as society as a whole - but meanwhile back in the real world...