Home Office issues 10,000 fraudulent passports
From this report in the Guardian:
An estimated 10,000 British passports were issued after fraudulent applications in the space of a year - and al-Qaida terrorists have successfully faked applications, the Home Office admitted today.
This same government wants to issue ID cards to every adult resident of Britain backed by a database storing all the names they’ve been known by, the details of every occasion on which their identity is checked, every address they’ve ever lived at, every identity document that’s ever been issued to them, and a unique identifier that will index into other government databases holding information about them.
How can we trust them not to also issue thousands of these cards to those who fraudulently apply for them or to keep the data safe when they demonstrate such incompetence with passports?