The Times Online guest contributors Opinion

The Times on ID Cards which is perhaps not the best name for them:

"ID cards would be better named 'surveillance cards', because they provide central authority with a means for monitoring all your activities, and give it permanent access to all your personal details."

Since you already know your own identity. but also

"To the permanent loss of privacy and universal surveillance is added an opposite problem. Technical experts point out that one in six people will not be able to get ID cards because their biometric data (iris patterns, fingerprints, facial patterns) may not be recordable on the card’s implanted computer chip. They will therefore find it hard to access the services such as healthcare and pensions that ID cards are intended to give “entitlement” to."

So an underclass of un-people without the proper papers to be presented whenever they are demanded by your friendly automatic wielding secret policeman, just before he puts 11 bullets into their head.