Moonshine
01-06-2004, 00:38
to: identitycards@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
subject: consultation response
With regards a compulsory identity card system, I would like to know what the government's response to the following questions are:
With regards terrorism:
Would an ID card system catch terrorists that are here legally and have no criminal record?
Would an ID card system have prevented the Sept. 11th WTC bombing that has kicked off this whole debate?
How will an ID card system prevent terrorist attacks, when the people involved in the recent Madrid bombing, allegedly, had valid ID?
With regards cost:
What is your estimate on how much the full ID system will cost? Is it higher or lower than the £6bn figure that has been floating around?
How will the money for this system be raised? What will be the individual cost per person, and will there be any subsidisation of the system through taxes?
Have you researched other, more efficient anti-terror, asylum and immigration control, and identity theft measures?
Could this money be spent on better things?
With regards security:
What anti-fraud measures have you in place to prevent the use of false national ID cards?
How often do you expect misidentifications to occur under the proposed system, how would they affect the workflow of checkpoints, and what would be the consequences to the misidentified?
Bearing in mind that half a million census forms went missing, and that security experts have declared that a system of a mere 20 million people would be a logistical nightmare, how can you assure the public that there would be no errors in a centralised database of 60 million?
Can you tell me how a single, centralised system with only one front that needs to be attacked to defeat it is more secure than the collection of multiple redundant systems that currently contain information on the citizenry of this country?
With regards freedom:
Can you give an absolute, 100% positive gaurantee that a compulsory national identification system will not damage or erode civil liberties or the freedom of innocent individuals in any way whatsoever?
I look forward to a response, thankyou for reading.
subject: consultation response
With regards a compulsory identity card system, I would like to know what the government's response to the following questions are:
With regards terrorism:
Would an ID card system catch terrorists that are here legally and have no criminal record?
Would an ID card system have prevented the Sept. 11th WTC bombing that has kicked off this whole debate?
How will an ID card system prevent terrorist attacks, when the people involved in the recent Madrid bombing, allegedly, had valid ID?
With regards cost:
What is your estimate on how much the full ID system will cost? Is it higher or lower than the £6bn figure that has been floating around?
How will the money for this system be raised? What will be the individual cost per person, and will there be any subsidisation of the system through taxes?
Have you researched other, more efficient anti-terror, asylum and immigration control, and identity theft measures?
Could this money be spent on better things?
With regards security:
What anti-fraud measures have you in place to prevent the use of false national ID cards?
How often do you expect misidentifications to occur under the proposed system, how would they affect the workflow of checkpoints, and what would be the consequences to the misidentified?
Bearing in mind that half a million census forms went missing, and that security experts have declared that a system of a mere 20 million people would be a logistical nightmare, how can you assure the public that there would be no errors in a centralised database of 60 million?
Can you tell me how a single, centralised system with only one front that needs to be attacked to defeat it is more secure than the collection of multiple redundant systems that currently contain information on the citizenry of this country?
With regards freedom:
Can you give an absolute, 100% positive gaurantee that a compulsory national identification system will not damage or erode civil liberties or the freedom of innocent individuals in any way whatsoever?
I look forward to a response, thankyou for reading.