Originally Posted by Dovster
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.
Upwards of £300. In any event, there will be "leaders" and "liars" to be found in many places and plenty of citizens willing to follow such people as they move forward on the "security at any cost" march as long as they perceive their fantasy (and comfort) becoming reality, regardless of the costs, means and consequences.
These are some general questions that I have but cannot find answers to either:
Will there be a practical difference in outcome between access to the data base(s) and access to info from the data base(s)? Or is it just a partition of which info is readily publicly available data and which info is "'only government retained data' until a slip-up?
Before the term Fortress America (re-)entered the public discourse in light of post-9/11 changes, the term Fortress Europe was well-bantered about. For purposes of trade, thankfully that fortress is not what it once used to be.