ID Cards - MPs question Governments Motives

The multibillion-pound identity card scheme could be used to carry out surveillance on millions of people, a Commons select committee said yesterday.

Now I realise that this is not Zimbabwe and we are never likely to face a vote for this government or starve ultimatum but when the British Government wants such broad powers to track and control our data and aspects of our lives this starts to become a different sort of sinister.

I meet people who tell me that this is really not a problem if you have done no wrong. But surely this depends upon the way those in power use your personal information.