People 'can't wait for ID cards'

[minestrone]

What about, as is the current case, that the government is creepily making all occupations 'cleared' in one way or another?

You'll sit at home and claim the social?

But you won't be able to do that as you'll need the card to claim...

Do you really not see it?

Yes, I do fail to see what imaginary delusions your mind is creating.

“Next they will be tatoing a barcode onto our arms, then we will all have to live in concentration camps IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?!?!?!”

Hysterical mince if you ask me.

[ace00]

I wonder if there'll be different colors of cards? Black for the Uber-class (Labor party, Russian Billionaires), Platinum for contributors to the party, Gold for high net worth citizens who vote correctly, Green for the regular plebs, Yellow for imbeciles, unemployed, those whose votes are not correct.

[Bagpuss]

So what's the general consensus on ID cards a good or bad thing?

[Purple Dalek]

You don't need a satellite, just a RFID chip in the cards. I think one country did this (USA?) on passports, and this meant that these people could be detected as Yanks by people with an interest and scanners. I don't know the whole sorry tale, but they may have dropped them, or supplied shields.

Yes, one variety of road side bomb in Iraq was triggered by the proximity of American passports, American vehicle tyres, and a few other bits and pieces the poor sods were carrying about that had embedded RFIDs.

[OwlHoot]

The goverment is not forcing you to have one. End of.

The Daily Mail type reaction to these things is laughable.

Not End of, but Start of.

I can't believe anyone in IT (supposedly) can be so utterly thick and naive.

Of course they'll start out optional, but as several people have pointed out once banks and companies start demanding to see them how will it be possible not to have one? Then, once practically everyone is forced in practice to have one, before you know it they'll be made compulsory.

[minestrone]

The US passports are shielded and can only be detected when they are opened.

[Moscow Mule]

The goverment is not forcing you to have one. End of.

Yet. Their stated aim is to make it compulsory one day. The question remains, will you get one when they become available?

The Daily Mail type reaction to these things is laughable.

Don't be a *****.

The only reason I would ever read the Daily Mail is to find out what my mother is thinking.

[SantaClaus]

Not End of, but Start of.

I can't believe anyone in IT (supposedly) can be so utterly thick and naive.

It's the dumbing down of our nation

Teach the public not to think for themselves and feed them a diet of Big Brother and X Factor.

[Moscow Mule]

The US passports are shielded and can only be detected when they are opened.

Bollocks. A Dutch (IIRC) university have already published techniques on how to read the data stream from up to three metres away.

[Purple Dalek]

The US passports are shielded and can only be detected when they are opened.

This is part and parcel of your woeful lack of understanding in this area. Because the passport is now shielded only makes it hard to read the RFID, the consequence is to make it easier to detect whether it is an american passport.