U.K.: 'What Did Manchester do to Deserve the ID Card Trial? ' Vicki Woods
May 08, 2009
By Vicki Woods
From the minute David Blunkett raised the topic, I've never met anyone who wants one. Jacqui Smith says they'll cost £30 - but that is a 'capped' cost and will only last two years, after which she thinks vaguely the price might be 'competitive'. Since they will be linked into passports, it's more likely they'll be £200 and rising annually. ID cards, according to Computer Weekly, are 'a solution looking for a problem'. Ministers have searched hard for various problems over the years that they could solve, always ending up with benefit fraud, terrorism, and illegal immigration. They will not. They will solve problems for the IT companies that have been lovingly and geekily working on them for years.
The Telegraph (U.K.)
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