[Gllug] NHS opt out

[Mark Williams]

On Wednesday 24 Jan 2007 22:10, Nix wrote:
> On 23 Jan 2007, Mike Brodbelt said:
> > Possibly, but I personally don't have a problem with ID cards per se. I
> > have a huge problem with the proposed implementation we're getting, but
> > that's a different story. An ID card that has all your personal data on,
> > encrypted, and then digitally signed by the Government could work, as
> > long as you and only you could authorise people to interrogate it, and
>
> But how would you do that without another form of identification? It
> doesn't solve the authentication problem at all: just makes the
> consequences of a single crooked act (in this case, card theft) more
> catastrophic.

I'd suggest biometrics, but the government won't pay for that. Yet. Let's 
barcode babies at birth?

Mark

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