David Blunkett said today that with biometric Id cards, you can’t have multiple identities. He’s living in cloud cukoo land. I read a piece a little while ago that put the whole unique identity idea into touch where it belongs. Seems that David Blunkett still hasn’t read it…

The centralised database containing all the information about you (or someone like you) will get hacked and sold to nasty people. Then someone who the system thinks is you will do crimes and you will be arrested for them. At this point, the people in power who believe that the system is infallible will be able to “prove” that you did the crime because the system says so. With the current trend toward removing juries from trials and removing the right of appeal, some very scary things will happen in the future.