ID cards are made of magic
Dec. 21st, 2007 11:27 amFour Britons have been sentenced for their role in what has been described as one of the largest international online criminal networks stealing personal data.So what we urgently need is some kind of system that can concentrate all our data in one place so that dedicated criminals will have instant access not only to some scattered details of our lives but to every conceivable item—financial, legal, medical—of our personal data. To administer this comprehensive system we have the choice of low-paid, unmotivated and questionably skilled government employees (it might be quicker to establish if any data at all has been sent securely from HMRC in the past couple of years) or their counterparts in one of the government’s mysteriously favoured private sector companies (there are too many EDS stories to enumerate here, so I’ll just flag this, recall the near-collapse of the child support system and mention the most recent shitstain on their CV, which by their standards is relatively minor).
[...] But the four British men were not acting alone, and formed part of what the US Department of Justice described as "one of the largest illegal online centres for trafficking in stolen identity information and documents". The website acted as a criminal e-bazaar—in effect an online auction site for the underworld. [BBC]
What with infallible technology, the highest quality employees in charge of the day-to-day running of the scheme and such capable, trustworthy people in overall charge, what kind of swivel-eyed anarchist could possibly oppose the introduction of the ID card database?
