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Published Date: 22 November 2008
WOMEN who change their names after marriage could face fines of up to £1,000 if they fail to tell the government, it was revealed yesterday.
Anyone holding a biometric passport or ID card will be required to notify the National Identity Register of changes to personal data.

Draft legislation published yesterday sets out the fines payable by anyone who fails to comply. The Home Office also revealed the £30 fixed fee for the cost of the card is set only until 2010.



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  • Last Updated: 21 November 2008 9:52 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Scunnert,

22/11/2008 00:21:53
Wo ist eure ID Cart - bitte schnell!
2

walter,

22/11/2008 00:24:08
I do not have a problem with an ID card I have carried one for nearly 30 years.
I do have a problem with the amount of information this government want to have stored on it and the fact that they want to charge people to have one when they are making it compulsory.
3

subrosa,

22/11/2008 00:30:14
# 2

I too have carried an ID card when working in other countries. My problem is that this card is going to have far too much information on it and I have no trust in government to take care of such information.

Never have I had to pay for an ID card - it was always supplied FOC. Now we've to pay £30 and that's just for the first year.

If David Cameron said he would abolish this ID business, he'd win the next election hands down.
4

Dragonhead,

Dalian, China 22/11/2008 04:17:41
I too carried an ID card for decades.No problems at all.However with the new ones,they can shove it where the sun doesn't shine!An amnesty planned for illegal immigrants and more draconian measures for the good and honest souls in UK!The ID cards are a waste of time,money and effort. It is just another tax gathering ploy, through the intitial 30 quid and obscene fines for anything they can think of in the process. As for freedom to move as you please? It will be like China, where there will be "A family Book" a Hukou. Anywhere you go will be regulated and bureaucratic pond life will impinge on every area of life.The information will be 'on sold' by the very folk who are instituting the measures.The jails will be a growth industry, UK has had enough.
5

Hugo of Garven,

22/11/2008 06:16:03
#3 subrosa
"Never have I had to pay for an ID card . . "

Do you have a passport?
6

bully wee alba,

Edinburgh 22/11/2008 06:50:54
I have a passport and a driving licence.

Why do I need any other form of identification?

I already know who I am.
7

Randomly Blocked Poster, ,

22/11/2008 08:09:47
#4 "bureaucratic pond life will impinge on every area of life"
Dragonhead, you got the tense wrong my son. Delete the word "will" and add an "s" at the end of the word "impinge." That's more like it.
8

Guthrie,

Edinburgh 22/11/2008 12:39:56
Remember the important point is not that it is an ID card, but that it will be backed by a huge database, a database so complex and vulnerable that no competent IT professional thinks it will work. The database will from the start be riddle with errors, especially since it looks like they want to take existing databases and cram them all together into one new super database. With all their existing flaws...
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23/11/2008 09:02:22
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Dunfesterin,

Southern General 23/11/2008 16:55:36
I can't wait for ID cards to appear! Their encryption will be cracked within a few weeks of release, and ID fraud will rise rapidly.

All of the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" brigade who "approached Jacqui Smith and demanded the ID card" will be spitting feathers when their bank details are usurped by some Russian fraudster - and hopefully they'll end up bankrupt.

This will be the death of Zanu Labour. Cannot wait.

 

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