Originally Posted by de525ma:
“But many other EU countries have ID cards and this is not a problem there. Still meaningless conjecture.
And not having a credible source of who you are and where you live has led to a real problem with identity theft. A utility bill as proof of address? In 2015? Really.....”
The database would have been an identity thief's panacea, once they'd hacked the database or some official had left a memory stick on the train with the UK population's details on.
You've also got to remember that access to the database wasn't going to be restricted to a few government departments. Every man and his dog was going to get access.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identi...ent_and_access
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“Home Office forecasts envisage that "265 government departments and as many as 48,000 accredited private sector organisations" would have had access to the database”
It would have been about as secure as a leaking bucket.