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I see the new ID cards are off to a good start. According to the Observer:

'Britain's first ID cards, issued last week with fingerprint and facial details, cannot be read by any official body because the government has not issued a single scanner.'

Yes - I can see that working really well.

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But note that the government now has the fingerprints and facial details on everyone that got one.

So, from one point of view, mission accomplished.

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But if you can't compare them with anything that's something of a write only database...

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The people in the field can't; but it seems likely that someone sitting behind a desk in Whitehall, or the New Yard (excuse these generalities, I'm colonial) can compare them against latent prints to their hearts content.

Unless strong controls were implemented. Which they might have been. But I know here in the states, there are several cases reported in the press each year of officials misusing such databases.

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While there are certainly many valid criticisms of the ID card scheme, this isn't one of them. You have to do something first, and if they'd done it the other way around you'd just have had the story "Government officials are being issued with ID card scanners even though there's not a single issued ID card for them to read".

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That argument would work if there was evidence that there was a phased, well managed roll out underway. Instead, according to the article, 'there are as yet no plans to issue [readers]'. This suggests serious deficiencies in project management and, potentially, political interference in the delivery schedule. This is entirely consistent with the high costs and low effectiveness predicted by the LSE analysis of the scheme.

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I choose not to offer the possibility that some Discordian subversives might be working in The Ministry. Put it down to the sheer disorganisation of the whole endeavour.

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This was the main problem I saw with the cards. Without enough scanners then the cards are no better than a passport

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