Is this the end for ID cards?

[Kaidonni]

What I meant was, would you trust the same establishment with running an ID card scheme if they screw up so monumentally as to lose the records of 25m benefit claimants, while blatantly violating the Data Protection Act? You just don't violate it unless it's either deliberate, or you need shooting, and everyone who employed you the same. A real business would go under and be ripped apart, the managers and other high-up individuals finding their butts on a platter in front of a very serious, unimpressed judge (well...not in the UK, maybe a country with judges who aren't idiots who hand out lenient sentences to murderers, rapists, etc etc...and proceed to harp on about the Human Rights of the criminals).

In days past, those guilty would have been lined up against the wall and shot at dawn by firing squad, or tortured in the most horific way and then executed...

[macsen rufus]

5. I'm in the telephone book, who is not?

Me, for one...

[Husar]

In days past, those guilty would have been lined up against the wall and shot at dawn by firing squad, or tortured in the most horific way and then executed...

In days past you might have had a hard time finding 25 million people in Britain or trying to get a medium to hold all that data that didn't require several trucks to transport around.
Maybe they'll soon save the data on disks that are so small they're invisible that will certainly help since the bad guys won't even see it lying around.

Me, for one...

I knew there would be at least one, I have a few more suspects but in the end it's a matter of preference, if you hate the bureaucracy and the state and some companies having your data for this and that, there are always those good old ways of handling government and stuff as practised in certain third world countries where noone really cares whether or not you exist, much less what you bank data is.