[Archived] Id Cards

[stuwilky]

Just to explain, I'm a techie and I have a big passion for using technology to simplify processes. That is the real reason I would support ID cards, although I'm not blowing the trumpet for it stopping terrorism, just speculating how it might.

What processes will they make easier?

It would cost millions of course, to implement these, but I think it would be an investment whereby it can make things stealthily cheaper by centralising data and speeding up processes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't we now pay something like £80 for our passports? An ID card would be a similar cost perhaps (no engraved burgandy coverings/laminated pages etc). I don't believe looking at it as a "direct" cost is something to be put off by...

Why should I pay for both.

[philipl]

Times reporting that un-clonable e-passports are being copied successfully. So much for my having to submit 4 photos until they finally accepted one that really doesn't look like me.