ID Cards back in Blighty
 

Your thoughts?


<1984>

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Do you have a Canadian driving licence?

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No, but they certainly do not have any DNA info imbedded within them.

And people in the UK have driving licenses too. I am struggling to see your point....

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not sure on this one:blink:

In some ways, if it helps security issues then I don't really have a problem with it. In other ways its a bit much

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DNA, no. Pretty much everything else though.

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DNA ?

I know they plan to encode a biometric identifier, such as the pattern of your iris or your fingerprint into the chip

But encoding your DNA that would take up a lot of data to show a very small significant difference

Any way why worry they're probably tracking you via your cell phone now anyway,
and posting this on the web will have attracted the attention of the US Project Echelon

:unsure:

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OK- not DNA but still.

Echelon= :eek:

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I already know who I am.

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Here's an interesting one - if they tie the ID card to getting a passport as being proposed, does that mean even if you're an ex-pat abroad who maintains a British passport that you'll also have to maintain an ID card?

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I think some kind of ID card for UK Permanent Residents would be useful. For example my OH is Canadian but has ILR (since he moved to the UK when he was 14) but the only evidence of this is a crappy stamp on his passport I think something like the Canadian PR card could be useful for proving his status.

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I would assume that
as it seems that immigration is one of the key reasons for the ID card

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They do now
My wife has a UK page in her Canadian passport, in effect its almost a duplicate photo ID page that shows she has unlimited UK residence

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That sounds like an improvement. When we moved back here the bank and the doctors wanted proof of his status so they just took a copy of the page in his expired Canadian passport with the stamp on it. I'm glad they took that as proof but I think it would be very easy to make a fake.

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Why do you care?

<2008>

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I used to get worked up about it, but I seem to have survived having a Driver's License, a Health Card and a SIN card without coming to any
harm.

So I don't see what the big deal would be.