Are I.D. cards a good thing?

kestrelx · 17-11-2008, 17:35

www.no2id.net

Get information here!

K-P · 17-11-2008, 17:42

In this day and age anyone can make em... thus validity would be a problem..

I have a press card with a police phone number printed on it.. I have a password.. anyone wanting to check who i am phones the number and gives em my password to validate..

Less · 17-11-2008, 17:43

Isn't this old news?

K-P · 17-11-2008, 17:47

isnt it posted in general chat for dicussion and not posted as a news item...

Less · 17-11-2008, 17:50

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Originally Posted by K-P

isnt it posted in general chat for dicussion and not posted as a news item...

I can't remember remind me.

lancsdave · 17-11-2008, 17:53

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Originally Posted by Less

I can't remember remind me.

There's a thread here about it

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ing-43958.html

Less · 17-11-2008, 18:02

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

There's a thread here about it

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ing-43958.html

I knew I'd read it somewhere before, cheers.

garinda · 17-11-2008, 19:22

They'll at least stop me from having to carry around my driving licence, passport, or utility bills, as proof of identity, and therefore as a single item, will be much safer to carry around.

Neil · 17-11-2008, 22:47

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Originally Posted by garinda

They'll at least stop me from having to carry around my driving licence, passport, or utility bills, as proof of identity, and therefore as a single item, will be much safer to carry around.

Will they though?

K-P · 17-11-2008, 22:51

If the police stop you and you ahve no form of identification they can keep hold of you until you prove who you are.. an ID card would help

can they still do stop and search ?

andrewb · 17-11-2008, 23:02

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Originally Posted by garinda

They'll at least stop me from having to carry around my driving licence, passport, or utility bills, as proof of identity, and therefore as a single item, will be much safer to carry around.

Putting all your eggs in one basket worked out really safe for Northern Rock.

entwisi · 17-11-2008, 23:19

lets be honest. no goverment anywhere in teh world is capable of implementing such a project with teh correct security as this would need to be anywhere near useable.

one dodgy laptop and your ID card is cloned to high heaven.

NO thank you from a POV of someone who knows just how hard this sort of thing would be.

garinda · 17-11-2008, 23:27

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Originally Posted by andrewb

Putting all your eggs in one basket worked out really safe for Northern Rock.

You could say the same when you put your eggs in any one person's basket.

Though I really don't know what that has to do with identity cards.

An identity we have to prove many times already, by many other methods.

andrewb · 17-11-2008, 23:35

I don't think David Icke is the most credible person to use in an argument against ID cards.

£20 Billion is a lot of money for something we apparently already have in place Garinda.

garinda · 17-11-2008, 23:42

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£20 Billion is a lot of money for something we apparently already have in place Garinda.

If you notice I haven't said if I think it is a good or bad idea, as not being a member of any political party, I'm free to put my eggs in the most suitable basket, or even lob them at someone, if I so wish.

It's just that I'm not the sort of person to get my knickers in a twist, by thinking the introduction of identity cards is an errosion of my civil liberties, when we already all but have them, but under other guises.