My personal comcern is that, like any other government project, there tends to be "scope creep" whereby the original intentions are added upon and modified in subsequent years.
I think that no2id puts it best...
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Such a database would grow year on year until eventually the government had a file on every person in the UK. The file (and card) could contain or link to financial history, health background, religion, ethnicity, criminal convictions, purchase history, physical whereabouts of the ‘target’ citizen, political profile, DNA profile etc. etc. Each passing year will hear a call for more data to be added to the system in the name of “anti-fraud” “anti-crime” “anti-terrorism” “protecting children” “anti tax-evasion” or any one of a number of similar reasons.
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