Now that the House of Lords have stopped their opposition to the National Identity Card having forced the Government to make some meaningless concessions it looks like nothing can prevent the bill being passed. Chicken Yoghurt asserts that our list of allies has grown very thin and our only hope is that this massive IT project goes as badly wrong as all previous huge government IT projects.
As Longrider says over at Europhobia: “incompetence is now our most valuable ally“. We must now hope that the procurement and implementation of the National Identity Register is as cack-handed, expensive and late as the rest of the technocratic turds this Government has to seen fit to foist on us in its rudderless quest for a subjugated Utopia.
In that, at least, the odds are in our favour. We democrats grudgingly placed our faith in the hands of the unelected Lords. We must now, reluctantly yet with hope, put it in the hands of big business.
Can a Home Office that apparently cannot do their accounts properly be trusted with the massive funds needed for procurment and implementation of a National Identity Card System.
Tom of Blairwatch and Charlie Stross have done the maths on the time needed for the registration of the entire adult population of Britain and have calculated given the number of people divided by the number of regional registration centres each registration needs to completed in an unworkably short 72 seconds.
Given the technical problems people are predicting perhaps Perfect.co.uk is truly prescient with these two pieces of news from the future, more news from the future.
I forsee the biggest practical problem will be the failures due to the use of biometric data as a way of preventing a person getting multiple cards for different fake identities. I wrote about this a couple of years ago in my analysis of the national identity card scheme in the subsection Is biometrics a silver bullet?
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