By Jo Best
Published: Thursday 29 July 2004
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Name
Duane Phillips
Location
Manchester
Occupation
England
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As a reply to the previous post. Why not go the whole hog and RFID everything you own.
Just imaging you accidentally drop litter in the street the rfid will be cross referenced back to your ID and bang automatic instant fine in the post.
Your car could be tagged and next time you exceed the speed limit bang automatic instant fine.
Why not go the the whole hog and have a police state. Everything you do monitored. This all smells of 1984. Your life run by control freaks.
How is an ID card going to stop terrorism. Look at the FBI building in Oklahoma, the terrorist was a US citizen.
Will an ID card stop me from thinking up some terrorist scheme because I'm disgruntled with someone/something? Oh no, I have an ID card better not strap those explosives to my body and get on a bus. People will know who I am after I've detonated it.
We are already monitored by NI numbers, new style ...
Mike Taylor
As a reply to the previous post. Why not go the wh...
Duane Phillips
There's always a loophole, for example these 'prop...
Karen Challinor
Back to the technology of ID cards, it doesnt matt...
Duane Phillips
With a foolproof biometric - should such a thing e...
CPK Smithies
I work in IT, and the main point I try to make to ...
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