12 May 2008

Tesco’s to “Issue ID Cards”?

According to this teasing article, we’ll be able to “buy” our ID cards along with our Lottery tickets.

Separately, there are interesting differences between the (private sector) incentives attached to the latest “Club Card” loyalty scheme and the (public sector) penalties attached to government schemes:

In a country which perhaps has more Tesco stores than Post Offices: Tesco’s offers to “do its best” to return my keys if my bar-coded Club Card tag is attached to the keyring - ie. an incentive to carry the tag and to keep Tesco’s database update with the correct address.

Would the national or local government do the same if I lose my wallet containing my spooky new ITSO smart-card bus-pass (aka “Citizen Card")?

Wibbis:

1. Scrap the UK government & EU ID projects: We don’t need them; we can’t afford them. (We’ll even allow the government to give the “credit-crunch” as an excuse!)
2. More (any?) joined-up thinking about how ordinary people could benefit from any new e-government schemes.

Posted by Richard S on 12/05/08 at 11:48am
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