One of the greatest reasons for my opposition to the National ID card, aside from the fact that I think it technically flawed and incapable of fulfilling any of it’s major objectives, is not the card but the National Identity Register.
The BBC News has the list of the 49 different pieces of data that will be stored. The most worrying being the final three.
Records of provision of information
* particulars of every occasion on which information contained in the individual’s entry has been provided to a person
* particulars of every person to whom such information has been provided on such an occasion
* other particulars, in relation to each such occasion, of the provision of the information.
That is for every time your identity is verified against the data in the register a record will be made of when and where and any other pertinent information of that process.
With the increasing likelihood of people being requested for proof of ID by many organisations and companies this record will soon become a trail of your life. Where and when you rent videos or borrow a book from a library, when you go to the doctor or dentist, when you leave the country to go on holiday.
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