National identity card

November 2, 2008, 10:34am, 279 views

Australia should introduce a national identity card. It would serve a host of useful purposes.

The Herald Sun reports that Victorian police want to introduce portable fingerprint scanning devices at major events, concerts, disaster scenes and in booze buses to enable on-the-spot identification of people from a national database.

An identity card would do the same job more efficiently.

Photo ID, fingerprints, eye scans, digital signatures … all are technically possible and would help eliminate identity theft.

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Ebony Jackson on January 27th, 2009 4:55pm

The national identity card would be good.
I wonder if it would be useful at the Post Office when collecting parcels.
This morning I went to collect a parcel from the parcel hatch…I had in my hot little hand the blue card that was in my post box. Even though I have done this a hundred times before…I had no photo proof of ID because I don’t have a drivers licence.

Sometimes proving who you are is worse than visiting the dentist.