Tim Worstall on ID Card Idiocy.

Tim is reporting a peice in The Guardian that Charlie the Safety Elephant is now claiming that the ID Card database will only contain the same amount as the current passort database. The whole case for ID Cards has been based on lies but this one is good even by New Labour standards. If we take him at his word the system will be totally safe as it is based on 13 biometrics (actually 3) however since the database will only contain the data that is currently held in the passport database which does not have these 13 (actually 3) biometrics where are they stored so that they can be verified. Perhaps the pink fairies inscribe them on scrolls of vellum to be magically transported to whereever a verification needs to take place before disappearing in a poof of smoke. Or Mr Clarke could be speaking out of his arse.