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Thursday, March 03, 2005
ID Theft
The Which? story about ID Theft is all over the place at the moment.
Not surprisingly this is being used as a ‘reason’ for compulsory ID cards.
The survey of 975 people found seven out of 10 favoured compulsory ID cards as a way to fight fraud.
Fools.
ID cards will be superb for fraudsters, what better ‘proof’ of ID than a convincing official ID card. Fake ID cards will be available before even the official ones have been distributed - count on it.
Oh and the estimated cost of ID fraud? 1.3 billion pounds per year.
Estimated cost of ID cards? If you believe the government it is 5.5 billion over ten years, but when was the last time a large scale IT based government project came in anywhere near budget.
I recommend No2ID as a source of information of the downsides of ID cards.