They are going to be sneaked in by the back door regardless. The latest thing proposed is if you renew your passport etc it will have biometric data on it like your fingerprint / iris pattern. Despite the fact that they're saying it'll be 'voluntary' (yes, well it is voluntary whether you have a passport, of course). Down the line, so many people will have these documents that it will be futile to say you don't want an id card.
I still don't see how these things are going to prevent terrorism, which is the underlying excuse for getting them in. If you can fake a passport, you can fake an id card. Sooner or later.
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