Re: Excuse me?
"I suspect this one is pretty much unrelated to any political party - it's the unelected civil service, especially the Home Office, that has been pushing for ID cards and universal surveillance for decades."
You are correct.
And remember this has b**ger all to do with "security"
It's about collecting all possible information all the time forever. It's about "Give me 6 lines from an honest man, and I'll find something to hang him," as another unelected bureaucrat put it.
Why? Because to the mind of a data fetishist more data is always better and all data is best of all.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
