Tuesday, March 23, 2004
ID Cards: There will be an audit trail. There's a glimmer of light in the fact that the Government is going to need some fucking big data storage to handle this, but we pay our taxes to be turned into tagged prisoners in our country, not for services like ambulances and firefighters. So, the Government is tracking where you go. All they need to do then is decide that you must always carry and ID card and make it madatory to have it scanned when you purchase something, travel on public transport or fill your car with petrol, or any of the hundreds of innocent things we do each day, and David Blunkett will always know where you are. Even a law abiding citizen like myself finds the prospect of someone else knowing where I am, without my consent, a very scary prospect.
