UK ID card scheme near collapse?
The Register reports the current state of the UK’s National Identity Scheme.
An email exchange between David Foord of the Office of Government Commerce and Peter Smith, acting commercial director of the Identity and Passport Service, leaked to the Sunday Times, paints a picture of an impossible mission, a “Mr Blair” driving a cut-down “early variant” card and a Passport Service already making contingency plans in anticipation of ID cards crashing in flames.
So, there’s still hope, even as Mr Blair prepares to ride the ID scheme down to its final ignominious end. But, as The Register says:
The strong possibility of an early death for the ID scheme, however, still leaves troubling aspects to IPS’ “business as usual” plans. The organisation formerly known as the Passport Service has over the past few years been roadmapping the ID scheme into its long-range business plans. The removal of ID cards from the equation would therefore still leave the other ID scheme under construction, and it could not be readily disentangled from Passport Service planning without a conscious, politically-driven change of strategy. So it isn’t over by a long chalk.
pax et bonum
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