All the promises of this government that their ID cards scheme is important and safe are slowly falling apart, even before the ID scheme gets going!
When an ID card is used to verify a purchase or an identity, this fact is recorded on the Big Brother computers.
We have already had the tax office saying that they are going to use these computer records and match them to the person's tax record to pick up anomolies. This means that they are looking for where the person's income appears to be at odds with their pattern of expenditure.
If they are willing to do this then is is a small step for other actions!
Perhaps they could refuse the transaction on the grounds that people have outstanding tax bills, penalty tickets, etc. and they want to stop them spending their money on other things.
Perhaps the tax office, the social services, the company that issued a penalty ticket, etc. could simply refuse the transaction but divert the payment to where they want it to be!
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