The back door
While we are all laughing at the failure of the national ID cards scheme, few people have heard about the next front of attack: The NHS RiO database.
This is a database that was on trial in London, putting all GP and hospital records on one central system, but it is now being rolled out across the country. It is due to go live in the Hampshire trust next week.
Big Brother isn't daft when it comes to this sort of thing. There are centralised citizen databases coming in all sorts of different guises, and the winner will be extended to cover everything.