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Proof, if proof were needed, that ID cards are a waste of time

False card ID cards are on sale for £2. Pretty convincing ones, too.

Not only does this demonstrate the uselessness of the scheme – the false certainty such cards cause people to have constitutes a new danger in the world of ID.

By Alex Deane

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Big Brother Watch Posted in ID cards
  • Peter Becksmith

    Two pro ID Card articles in different national newspapers in rapid succession? Coincidence?
    Who are “security company CP”? Who are they linked to?
    “CIFAS – a not-for-profit fraud prevention service” a fake charity/service, working on whose behalf? Who is funding CIFAS?
    You need to do some homework!

  • http://profile.typepad.com/alexdeane Alex Deane

    But, Peter… that is plainly an ANTI-ID card article…

  • guy herbert

    CIFAS is a perfectly respectable and honest organisation. It is funded by its members, mostly banks and card issuers, which are listed on its website:
    http://www.cifas.org.uk/default.asp?edit_id=721-28
    Its pronouncements on the subject of fraud are considerably more trustworthy than HMG’s.
    The fake shown is actually a hopeless one, probably based on the mockups issued a couple of years ago rather than the current design. But since almost no-one knows what they are supposed to look like, it scarcely matters.

  • guy herbert

    CPP, BTW, is a company that sells insurance against loss/theft of your credit cards and other documents, so it has a perfectly rational interest in the subject.

  • http://profile.typepad.com/alexdeane Alex Deane

    what he said..!

  • Purlieu

    Of course we know what they look like, some people in manchester actually have one.

  • http://alastairs-place.net alastair

    I like the way that ID card shows Gordon Brown’s face but David Cameron’s name :-)
    Very unfair on David, but quite funny nonetheless.

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