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Originally Posted by alecE
Being able to check who I'm making deals with - maybe my life is missing something, but I've not had to do that yet.
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Hmm, maybe because I'm working with (legally restricted) explosives, but I have to do this quite regularly.
And ID cards with a photo (in combination with a license) are quite helpful there
Is regularly correct? At regular intervals. Regularly looks pretty wrong, but my spelling checker does not ring ..
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Id theft - here in UK we've already had instances of criminals getting work in the civil service and flogging off National Insurance numbers. Now we're going to set up another database. Were I an intelligent criminal, I'd be looking to suborn civil servants to get access to the data or to set up bogus ids.
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I know of .. let me think .. two similar cases in Germany. But that's not ID theft, that's ID forging, isn't it? And wouldn't ID forging be easier without an ID card?
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Trusting government - Hmm, as I understand it, the German system is a little less adventurous (i.e., more sensible) than the UK proposals. I don't have a problem with name & address data being held by govt., but if they're going to hold more data on my id card then I want to know what info they have, and be able to challenge and correct it when necessary
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It was more sensible (the ID card holds your name (including optional artists name), address, date of birth, size, a photo, colour of your hair and ID-number) - but they are changing it (biometric data (e.g. fingerprint), digital photo, reading via RFID, etc). Quite annoying...