Saturday, February 14, 2004
Some mixed-to-cloudy news in the battle to keep Britain out of Blunkett's Big Brother state, Government forced to rethink ID Cards plan after being told passport and driving license agencies databases weren't accurate enough for task. This is good because something that is seperate to those can't be sneaked through by piggyback legislation (which is what I believe was going to happen, correct me if I'm wrong) and now Parliament might have to vote directly. But the bad side is that the Government signalled it intended to create a ID card-specific database and no Government IT scheme has ever come in on budget and on time. So this could be another chance for Crapita to get loads of the people's money for turning in a substandard and buggy piece of software.
