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Identity cards.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: While I agree with most of what you have said on the "national identity card" issue (September 2005), I feel that the argument need not be so broad.
It is possible that card is often used as a kind of shorthand for database, but to me the idea of a physical, portable record with "your papers, please" connotations seems irrelevant. Unless I have seriously misunderstood the possibilities raised by modern technological trends, there is no need for information to be stored on such a device, and indeed it would be wholly undesirable. Such things are inconvenient in several respects, and vulnerable to loss, theft, damage, alteration and forgery.
A more practical discussion would centre on the creation of a centralised information system designed to answer a simple question: Who is this person? The main reliable information available to someone asking such a question will be biometric, whether it be fingerprints, iris or facial recognition, or some combination. A licensed identifying agent could transmit this data to a central authority and be given a simple name and number.
There would be no need, in the ...
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