ID scheme will be a costly, dangerous failure, says LSE report | The Register

According to the most comprehensive study yet the ID scheme will be a costly, dangerous failure, it will massively errode civil liberties, and not even be compatible with laws such as the Human Rights Act, and everything that it seeks could be done better, for less money, with less risk, and fewer infingements of civil liberties where it done in a more decentralised way. However since the Modus Operendi of the Blair Government seems to be getting to a police state as quickly as possible from their point of view all these negitives suddenly look positive.