Friday, 17 October 2008

Pros/cons of ID cards

The UK ID cards run off of database files. This stores all the fingerprint ID of all UK citizens, however not people from abroad. This is also a fail safe in case a person loses their card.

The purpose of an ID card is to provide information about the card holder, such as criminal past, GCSE results and other such. I feel that it meets this goal, however illegal immigrants will have no record of their past and it will be hard to get ahold of such a database. It will provide an easy way of locating people however, people could possibly find ways of fooling the system.

Also, it is an idea already with a huge against group against it, as it requires a big amount of information, which people may not want to have on a card.

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