Hey kids, can you spell U-turn?

[denny]

The government has abandoned plans to build a new computer system as part of the national identity cards scheme.

Comments

[olethros.livejournal.com]

So how much of the problem does that solve? It seems to me that the database, as opposed to the cards themselves, was a significant privacy threat. I know they still won't be popular, but are they now much less toxic?

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, yes. I suppose it depends what the three existing databases are that are going to be used for this now, what is going to be held in them (particularly, what is going to be held in them that isn't already), and who is going to be granted access to them (again, particularly who isn't already).