Comments on: Britain to use ID card database as national register

Public agencies will be able to use personal information submitted to database as part of compulsory ID card scheme.

[rmludwig]

British National ID

If the government is demanding the creation of this national data base, and is requiring that all adults be listed in it, why do the individuals have to pay for their own card? What happens if a person decides not to pay? Will the government attach his/her wages or take some other action to collect the funds? Also, the data base will contain the person's address. When the person moves, is s/he required to also inform the national register of an address change (maybe changing an address in the UK is different than in the US so maybe this would be automatic). Will they cross-reference deaths and name changes due to marriage/divorce to keep the registry up to date? Seems like there are too many simple ways for the registry to be screwed up. So there must be a lot of devious ways to seed bad information as well

[karlafg]

Personal integrity - the Swedish way

The Swedish solution:

http://www.skatteverket.se/download/18.b7f2d0103e5e9ecb08000109/711b03.pdf

"The personal identity number is also widely used
outside the public sector, for example in company
accounting procedures and the registers of insurance companies and banks. It is therefore common for the personal identity number to be used as a search code in computerized registers and as a link when collating more than one register. One such form of collation occurs when notification of change of address is forwarded from the population registry to other personal registers in the community."

[RememberEZ]

To reduce predictability of ID string

The following website presents a method of id string generation that does NOT reduce all individual rights concerns of this matter, but it does reduce predictability of identification string sequence for a specific individual.

RememberEZ.tripod.com/eat.html