Home Office documents laying out what is probably late-2007 thinking on ID cards have been leaking to the press. Here (PDF) you will find a complete version of a document analyzing options, with extensive No2ID annotation. Interesting reading for those here, and not just because it’s worth understanding how the government is thinking about ID cards these days. The kind of thinking embodied in this document is, I think, a significant reason why citizens do not trust government.

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