UK government considering selling ID card data to pay for ID system
What’s that slightly coppery smell? It’s irony mixed with incompetence.
So, let me get this straight. The UK government decides to implement a national ID system amid serious criticism of its effectiveness at all and its cost-effectiveness in particular, and now is considering selling the data to pay for spiraling costs.
I bet that idea is guaranteed to reduce identity theft and abuse of the system.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=649780
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