ID Cards
Students are going to be one of the first groups after immigrants and airport workers to be issued ID cards from the Home Office, young people and students will be asked to give their details voluntary by 2010. The best bit is that the cost for ID cards will be £30.
Your identity information will be put on a database called the National Identity Register, information in the database will be limited and only parliament will be able to change your data.
Under the ID scheme personal details will be stored on a plastic card with a microchip, you will then be monitored for life. The government thinks people will be better protected if people know other people are who they say they are, and can beat ID fraud.
Most people are surely more bothered about whether the government can keep the data safe, as judging from past records of lost data people are more worried about the government handling personal data than ID fraudsters.
Will Data Be Safe
NOVEMBER 2007 - Child benefit data lost
· DECEMBER 2007 - Nine NHS Trusts admit losing details of patience
· DECEMBER 2007 - Floppy disc with personal details of Devon police found
· JANUARY 2007 - Laptop taken from a Navy Officer which had peoples details on
· FEBRUARY 2008 - Inquiry into the loss of 2.000 Dutch criminals lost
· MARCH 2008 - 1.084 laptops and and pc's were lost by Civil Servants
· March 2008 - 300.000 patients' prescriptions lost
· DECEMBER 2007 - Floppy disc with personal details of Devon police found
· JANUARY 2007 - Laptop taken from a Navy Officer which had peoples details on
· FEBRUARY 2008 - Inquiry into the loss of 2.000 Dutch criminals lost
· MARCH 2008 - 1.084 laptops and and pc's were lost by Civil Servants
· March 2008 - 300.000 patients' prescriptions lost
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