Hi Antaletriangle,
I too am in favour if ID cards in the UK to store important information. In one card you can store your drivers license, tax code, polling card, birth certificate details, the list is endless.
Also eventually there will be global ID cards. One could argue that the numbering of such cards would be too difficult, but it is quite simple.
We could use telephone codes to simplify. So, in my case, as I was born in the UK, my number would be 44 (UK) 1904 (where I was born) WP****75-A (my NI number). There you have it. A 17 digit number which could be registered in the form of a bar code.
The same could be done in any part of the world for any person in the world and the same card could be used as a passport for travelling.
The things that you do later in life are added to your number, medical records, crimes, dirivng licenses etc. all centralized in data bases all over the world.
Wouldn't that bring the world a little closer together?
Best regards,
Steve
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Originally Posted by Antaletriangle
Published: 22 December 2008 13:26 GMT
More than 1,000 messages asking for ID cards have flooded into the Home Office.
Over the last two years, 1,142 out of 3,073 pieces of correspondence to government on the biometric cards have been classified as "wants an ID card", according to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
Smith revealed the figures in a recent parliamentary written answer where she added that the cards appear to be growing in popularity.
"From October 2007 to September 2008, the number one theme every month, accounting for by far the most common subject matter, has been 'wants an ID card'," she said.
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The announcement follows Identity and Passport Service (IPS) research that found 55 per cent of the public "agreed with ID cards" in November 2008, down from 60 per cent in August.
Smith also said that the Home Office also planned to introduce a secure "web-based service" to allow people to check how much of their "core identity information" is held on the National Identity Register, the central government database containing the personal and biometric information of ID cardholders.
She added that the IPS is in the process of procuring the system to run the web service from those companies bidding to produce the ID cards and run the National Identity Register.
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