I was watching a CNN report a few days ago about the UK's proposed ID cards. Apparently they will cost about 300 Pounds Sterling each and will be loaded with all kinds of info.

There have been newspaper reports that the government is considering financing the program by selling some of the info to private companies but the Home Office denied it was planning to sell access to the data base.

It was worded vaguely enough to allow the reader to understand that access to the data base would not be provided but that info from the data base might be.