"I made this!"

[denny]

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/AgainstIDcards/

Comments

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

Fingerprint and retina scans aren't yet accurate enough in affordable units to be of any use in this application. And I seriously object to the thought of a DNA scan at every turn, for any reason, no matter how secure it is supposed to be... :S

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Yep. So there are the (enormous) hidden costs of this scheme in order to make it effective. And who do you think is going to pay for this? The merchants will pass this on to the public through higher prices.

As far as DNA scans go, presumably it would only be a partial DNA scan, along the same lines of argument that they use for the fingerprint information - they only store enough information to confirm that a fingerprint matches the one given earlier, not enough to recreate the fingerprint...

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

It's not that they'd want to store the info that bothers me so much with DNA (though that thought isn't a particularly appealing one in itself). It's the thought of having a sample taken all the time that I object to most strongly. No, thank you very much, I'd rather not give someone a swab with my cheek lining every time I want to buy something with an age restriction, or do something with my bank account (like change my address for instance, something that requires you to prove your ID).

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

True, that is not appealing either. Who knows, though. Perhaps they'll be able to invent remote DNA analysers, so reading your DNA becomes no more difficult than a bar-code scanner... just think of the implications of that!