skidmarx

There is a huge difference between having/asking for/being compelled to hold an ID card for gym membership driving a car joining the army whatever, and having to hold one to EXIST! This is a fundamental erosion of our human rights foisted upon us by a transitory goverment who should be answerable to US not us to THEM. Your personal data is yours to control and it is not within anybody else's right to demand unless a law has been broken or it seems reasonable to assume that one is about to be broken. Aren't we all still innocent until proven guilty? I'm not sure I want to live in a state that assumes otherwise. As for nefarious reasons for wanting the data and the security of it....well it'll be linked to your nectar card before you know it! Anybody remember the case of the Inland revenue who prosecuted somebody because his claimed income was below what they could show he was spending at a supermarket? Not for me.... nooooooo waaaayy...