Comments on: Angela Epstein, the UK’s first ID card holder

By: nina steggar

nina steggar — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:23:26 +0000

don’t worry my dear it will eventually prickle.

By: LeChiffre

LeChiffre — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:39:09 +0000

Glib, flippant and inaccurate:

“Anyway, the personal information the card surrenders is minimal: it holds my picture, name, date of birth, finger prints and signature. I probably give away more every time I swipe my supermarket loyalty card.”

By: martinb

martinb — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:16:51 +0000

She also fails to understand the meaning of the word ‘voluntary’.

I’d draw a pertinent parallel but for fear of invoking Godwin.

Oh, sorry – that’s right, she already did.

By: Tom Welsh

Tom Welsh — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:04:55 +0000

Ms Epstein seems to be labouring under the delusion that her ID card will enable her to “prove her identity” whenever she produces it. She also thinks (by implication) that it would be less trouble to replace than a passport. And she doesn’t seem to have any inkling that her prized card might actually help a criminal steal her identity, making it extremely difficult for her to reclaim it.

I hope for her sake that the UK never has a government that dislikes Jews. (Yes, I do realize that could never ever happen).