Supermarket Loyalty Cards Vs National ID Cards

john.wingfield writes "The BBC is running a story on a speech David Blunkett, the British Home Secretary, has given on ID cards and supermarket loyalty cards. He criticises the data protection arrangements for the loyalty cards whilst simultaneously (hypocritically?) promoting his own national ID card scheme, which is exempt from the Data Protection Act 1998. See also the UK Information Commissioner's (data protection and freedom of information watchdog) concerns about the ID card scheme."

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Poetry time!

[wrinkledshirt]

There once was a man called Blunkett.
Loyalty Programs? He tried to debunk it.
But his views on privacy
Were pure hypocrisy,
So Britons everywhere said "Man, you flunk it!"

Re:Poetry time!

[Anonymous Coward]

The poem was quite swell,
Yes, all was going well,
Except one thing,
You musn't be be king,
To see that the poem had far too many syllables for it's own good.

Not a Limerick

[Omkar]

The rhythm is off, but the rhyme is true, so the reader is left hanging. M yattempt to fix:
The once was a man named Blunkett
Privacy? Tried to debunk it.
But his guv'ment's card
Hit privacy hard
Hypocrisy test? He flunked it!

That was godwaful. See why I'm going to major in math?

I mean...

[LardBrattish]

He criticises the data protection arrangements for the loyalty cards whilst simultaneously (hypocritically?) promoting his own national ID card scheme, which is exempt from the Data Protection Act 1998.

I mean, you'd have to be blind not to see that wouldn't you?