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UK Citizens For Sale!

Posted June 26th, 2005 by quarsan

As the cost of ID cards rises, New Labour have a solution: They're going to sell your data:

Personal details of all 44 million adults living in Britain could be sold to private companies as part of government attempts to arrest spiralling costs for the new national identity card scheme, set to get the go-ahead this week.

The Independent on Sunday can today reveal that ministers have opened talks with private firms to pass on personal details of UK citizens for an initial cost of £750 each.

One of the many dubious arguments in favour of ID cards is to protect against identity fraud. Well, this is one way of doing it; why defraud when you can buy the info on the open market?