Thin end of the wedge - and guess where they want to try the experiment first?????

"But a Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities spokesperson insisted this was an entitlement card, not an ID card." Yes, it will ID you to see if you are entitled or not - JUST LIKE ANY ID CARD.

"That access could be extended to health services." just as an example, or getting your child a place in school, or getting council housing. Perhaps by 2011, you'll need a card to ID yourself at the polling station before you can vote. And then the banks and financial institutions start insisting on using this card to ID customers.

Thin end of the wedge indeed.

It is the thin end of the wedge.

Why are there so many people in this country, particularly politicians, who have developed a totalitarian, control freak mentality?

People should remember that their ultimate aim is to microchip everyone, with chip readers in every street and lamp-post, so that they can control our every movement.

Joe Stalin would have loved this stuff.

So it's to be introduced in Scotland ... before England??

Well, we've been here before haven't we??

Just say NO!!!

Scottish Local Authority must take people for fools. Information is Power. Identity theft is the growth industry of the west. I live in country where without my Entitlement ID card, I cannot get medical services, schooling or government services free, a job with local government requires security vetting, every thing is controlled by the "Number". Be on guard, remember when, it was not compulsary to get your wages by Cheque, then by bank transfer? now you need plastic to get it at a price. Once the information is in the "government computer systems" only the Chinese or Russian hackers can help you get at it. Singpore is the best case study for social engineering using automated systems.

If it walks like a duck, Quacks like a duck, be assured its a duck.

All you have to do is look at the pro-unionists postings on the spying article to see what would happen.

given the admitted 00000's of errors in the police DNA database & the complete shambles that the majority of council databases are in & wouldnt trust this lot to arrange a jumble sale. Apart from the obvious fraud the theft of such databases would keep the Id fraudsters employed for many years !.

CEC cant even secure websites & email systems so would you really trust them to provide accurate details on card holders especially as this scheme has the ability to scope creep to a national database.

#4 the UK is a larger test case, singapore is just the start, if we continue to let power crazed paranoid politicians dictate the total information awareness & surviellance that we are heading towards then orwell was correct he just didnt get the dates right.

"But its all for our own safety" & "If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear"

Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

They can go take a running jump......

Take the money from the UK government put it into a complicated scheme and have a few committee meetings, followed by a controlled small trial.

Release a report how it was unworkable, by that time you have squirreled away the cash into some sensible Scottish initiaitves.

We might as well make our crap system work for us.

But a Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities spokesperson insisted this was an entitlement card, not an ID card.

Name that person and make them accountable that if it does become an ID system they will go to prison for conning us.