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Originally Posted by alecE
The alleged benefits seem weighted solely in favour of government, what if any benefits are there for me?
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E.g. being able to check who you are making deals with?
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I see id cards as providing a H U G E incentive for widespread id theft
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I've never heard of any case of id theft that was helped by ID cards ...
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I don't trust government to keep my data safe and am concerned at the cost - can anybody name even one large government IT project that has come in on time, on budget, on spec and actually worked?
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Nope. In Germany this system is established for years - so far w/o any problems regarding data theft, cost or other problems...
OTOH what information does your provider have?
(I dont like my government to have any data from me - but where I live and whats my name .. I dont see any problems with that. The same data is in the telephone book)