2006-10-09 08:04:27 · 5 answers · asked by sonson 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
No you cannot. Any ID card that are currently issued by the Home Office are not issued on that basis. The ID cards that will be Introduce in 2008 to British Citizens will be acceptable to work with.
2006-10-10 02:57:20 · answer #1 · answered by Mr curious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The forecast of the cost of national identity cards is absolute rubbish! I worked in the security print industry and I can only say that someone somewhere in the government contracts department who deals with this issue is taking the Micky out of us. All we need is an NI number when we're born that lives with us exclusively during our life time and then gets wiped out when we die and kept in archives. Anyone with a PC can tell you how to run a simple [secure] software program just dealing with NI numbers so they can't be stolen or duplicated. In the late 1990s there were over 3 million duplicate NI numbers in the system and nobody seemed to care. Now with Asian call-centres selling our information there are probably a few million more. A secure national database dealing purely with full name, date of birth, place of birth, and National Insurance number is all that is required on that 'plastic card'. finger prints, eye recognition etc is just a load of mumbo jumbo to develop the police state and invade our personal privacy further. I am in favour of ID cards at the level I suggest - catch a terrorist with a duplicate card, feed it into the simple computer program and track down the authentic owner of the NI number. Easy to check because the owner of the forged card would not have the previous employment information for evidence of ownership. Ah well - too simple and no pay-back of any significance for that contracts department in the civil service. And by the way whatever they estimate the cost today, it will have tripled because they will keep changing the software program as it's being installed because they never decided what they really wanted in the first place and stuck to it. Just like air traffic control, inland revenue, NHS computer systems.
2006-10-09 10:08:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not when it costs over 5 billion pounds to set up and run for the next 10 years!
2006-10-09 08:06:24 · answer #3 · answered by Maxi 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know who I am, the bank knows who I am, my doc. knows who I am, a hospital knows who I am.the tax man knows who I am, DVLC know who I am. Everyone I know, knows who I am.
You tell me, who doesn`t know who you are?
I was issued an ID card and number when I was born, it still in use, so why should I and others like me be subjected to such nonsense. Bureaucracy gone mad again.
Another wheeze to cover up another cockup.
2006-10-09 08:25:16 · answer #4 · answered by Spanner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea why not what is everybody scared of,ok it recks of big brother but if your'e legal what do'es it matter
2006-10-09 08:16:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋