Dangers of an ID card scheme

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by Simon Davies of Privacy International

In short, the implications are profound. The existence of a persons life story in a hundred unrelated databases is one important condition that protects privacy. The bringing together of these separate information centers creates a major privacy vulnerability. Any multi-purpose national ID card has this effect.

http://www.privacy.org/pi/activities/idcard/idcard_faq.html