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U-Turn On UK ID Cards
An anonymous reader writes "The UK appears to be watering down its national ID card system, with the revelation by the government that it will now only check the cards against a central biometric database in a minority of cases. Critics are saying it not only renders the whole scheme pointless, but will pose a security risk by making it far easier to use copied or cloned cards. 'But an Identity and Passport Service spokesman denied the system would be vulnerable to fraud: 'The majority of instances where people use their identity cards will be day-to-day situations where the cards offer a convenient method of proving identity such as a young person proving their age to buy alcohol,' he said.'"
While a Brit, thank God I live in Switzerland, where the populace is educated, public data secure and FOSS is ever more popular while the Bundesrat can't pass laws the people don't like.
[sing along now!]
And I'm proud to live in Switzerland, where they've got big holes in cheese!
And I won't forget the cows whose milk made this dairy treat for me!
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
And I gladly stand up
And hide Jew gold today
Cause I'm proud to live in Switzerland
God bless the old Swiss franc
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)