Comments on: ID Cards: An Early Taste? http://idealgovernment.com/2006/02/id_cards_an_early_taste/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Wed, 14 May 2014 08:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Alun Jones http://idealgovernment.com/2006/02/id_cards_an_early_taste/comment-page-1/#comment-731 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:33:25 +0000 http://id_cards_an_early_taste#comment-731 I remember trying (and failing) for more than a year to get a credit card in this country, because as a 23-year-old “with no credit history”, I was “a risk”. You’ve guessed it – I had plenty of credit history, just not in the USA. It’s all in the UK. I eventually had to threaten the bank that I would talk to lawyers about their promise not to discriminate on the basis of national origin, before they would consider me.

Coming to an ID card debate near you, aniridia. “You got no biometric, you ain’t a person”.

]]> By: Tim Conway http://idealgovernment.com/2006/02/id_cards_an_early_taste/comment-page-1/#comment-730 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:07:00 +0000 http://id_cards_an_early_taste#comment-730 An interesting one, this!

I know exactly what she is going through and in fact, because it happened to me in 1998, newly arrived from Australia and moving into a large office building that had been converted into apartments (ie, multiple addresses for a former single address postcode) my problems were perhaps an order of magnitude more complex.

That experience did attract me to the concept of an identity card (assuming, of course, I could have obtained one!) as I was a non-person despite having passport correctly stamped, money and so-on. The moral was, I found, to be persistent with whatever organisation you were dealing with, whether government…ot Vodafone!

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