Talk:Identity Cards Act 2006

message: Too many people speak of ID cards being "voluntary" or "compulsary" without explaining what exactly they mean. For example if an ID card is required in order to get a job, driving licence (Come to think of it would there be much point in retaining seperate driving licence documentation at all ?), social security benefits or a bank account then it wouldnt fit within most peoples understanding of "voluntary" ("Its not compulsary but you have to own one") on the other hand when one speaks of a card being "compulsary" do they mean that one is required to have the thing with them at all times or will it be sufficent to have one but keep it at home somewhere (along the same lines as vehicle insurance documentation) and just bring it with them on occasions when one is likely to be dealing with officialdom ? 
Similarly there is a lot of confusion over what information will be "on" the card when it actually makes sense (from an administrative point of view) to have very little information (perhaps just a photo and a reference number/barcode) physically "on" the card when having it cross referenced on a networked database makes it easier to update and add to (concerns about access to said database and "functionality creep" notwithstanding. 213.40.98.117 (talk) 09:33, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voluntary or Compulsary 

message: Will the Queen and other members of the Royal family have to get them too?  How will their names be listed?  HRH Prince William of Wales or William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor?
"In reality the "voluntary" period will be nothing of the sort. It will be mandatory during this period to have an ID Card in order to renew a driving licence or passport — thus an estimated 80% of the UK population will be forced to have an ID Card during the "voluntary" scheme. "
The above is clearly wrong. The card is NOT compulsory. One might as well say a driving or TV licence is compulsory. It is not, as it is not compulsory to drive or own a TV. 
Will remove if no objection. 
Exile 19:19, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal Family 

message: I wrote this just over a week ago: Identifying the Problem -- Smjg 14:32, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  My thoughts 

message: At what point are we going to find out what this will consist of?  Obvious stuff like height and weight would seem too subject to change to be useful in the long term.... -- Smjg 16:50, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is that there are a number of competing biometric standards to choose between. The new biomatric passports use facial recognition, biometric visas (to be introduced by EU countries shortly will use fingerprints and Iris scanning is being introduced at UK Ports of Entry.  Basically they all have problems and benefits and until there is a common agreement on which one to use I suspect that the question is being deliberatley left unanswered --Spartaz 14:53, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other biometric information? 

message: "National opinion polls suggest that the public are generally supportive of the scheme in principle if the Cards are free". I'm assuming that "free" means that there is no charge for the card at point of issue. Whatever the overall cost, the tax-paying uk population will pay for the cards, whether they cost £30 or £500 each! I think the poll respondents were a little confused on the point of who pays for what...
:: They're £300, or so I've heard. Interesting waste of tax-payers money, no? - Jigsy 20:11, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cost 

message: The following section I removed from Identity document because it really belongs here, replaced it with a link to this main article. However it is pretty much the same as the stuff here and is also POV. Perhaps someone could extract some useful info to put into this article. 219.77.98.22 10:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: stuff from [[Identity card]]

message: Speaking of which, shouldn't this article really be at British national identity register? The card is only a spin-off of the register. --Bonalaw 07:30, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In theory you're right, however few people realise this (it's rarely mentioned in the media), and the title of the legislation is the "Identity Cards Act" so it's probably better off where it is. 80.42.36.220 04:04, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If this is the only argument against, I think it should be changed.  Wikipedia's job is to inform and educate in a NPOV way.  The relatively unbiased Lords Committee for the Constitution said that the legislation should be called the "National Identity Register and Identity Cards Bill" . "National Identity Register and ID Cards" would be my recommendation. There is no need for "British" in the title, surely. Mindjuicer 07:00, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article name

message: The following comment was added directly to the article. Regardless of the truth of the matter it is clear the comment belongs here:
:: The paragraph above is a Lie. For exaple, South Africa is also a common Law country.They also have ID cards.Check stuff before you enter it in here.
195.83.126.10 10:05, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment from main article

message: Quote from :
:"Could the card be used for travel in Europe?
:Most citizens of the European Economic Area (EEA) countries are able to travel within Europe using their national ID cards rather than a full passport. An ID card with British nationality displayed on the card could be used for travel in Europe."
This only says that if the card displays the nationality it would be valid for travel (conditional tense), which is merely a statement of EU law. It does not say the card will be proof of British nationality. Has anybody official said the card will be a proof of British Nationality?
Also, nowhere on the web site does it say what will be on the card, for example will your address be on it? If it cannot even be used as proof of address, it is useless. Am I being paranoid here? TiffaF 15:14, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm I think early drafts showed nationality so those issued to British citizens would be valid to use within in the EU/EEA. Spartaz Humbug! 17:08, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a way to cover their back as they want to force any British resident who is not a British National to have ID cards from 2008. Obviously they would not want these to be used for travel. So you could easily understand that it would somehow differentiate between both groups. Asteriontalk 09:23, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's normal. Italy for example issues ID cards to non-citizens. They simply can't be used outside Schengen. Other countries issue different cards to residents than citizens. Ultimately its simply a question of matching the nationality on th4 card with the country that issued it. If its different its not valid for travel. Spartaz Humbug! 10:54, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of a British Identity Card in place of a passport for travel in the EU 

message: is there any way to add some comments about the power of the database to be used for profilinf. The extensive information on the database (perhaps combined with other personal data) could be used in the same manner, for the same purpose, as a Tesco store card - to show who, how and where to target electoral resources and what promises to make in order to win an election.
If the information is not held securely, then there is a strong risk that the government would use the power of this data for electoral purposes, manipulating people, making promises, ignoring some, victimising others. 
This is not unrealistic given the current regimes attitude to using national resources for party political purposes.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.157.32.16 (talk) 23:28, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can find references to support it (of other people making such accusations or government/political parties proposing it, not original research), feel free to add it. Please take care not to make unsupported statements (particularly contentious or deliberately subjective ones) and bear in mind that this is an encyclopaedia, not a forum. Cheers, CaNNoNFoDDa 17:07, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: no, this is an encyclopedia's forum. the actual page is the encyclopedia. 195.157.32.91 09:42, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I know this message was a long time ago but we don't have a forum. The purpose of this page is to discuss how to make the article better, not as a forum for discussion of the subject matter. Nil Einne (talk) 08:04, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  profiling 

message: I do hope the Labour party will give up the crazy idea of ID cards before the next election. I and my familiy have voted labour for generations, yet I will vote Tory to avoid them, and so will a very large number of other people. I do not like the creation of a Nazi state by the back door. 89.242.106.210 (talk) 12:39, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You tell him "make your comments elsewhere", but you still make the pro-ID card point about European countries having them? (Most European countries may have some form of ID - as does the UK, it's called a passport - but they don't have the UK's National Identity card and database: a £93 card with biometrics stored on a national database.) Mdwh (talk) 02:52, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: While this was always OT, I think you missed Lstanley's point. The UK is one of the few countries in the Europe without some form of Identity document meaning some document often in the form of a card, issued by the government (whether compulsory or not) for the express purpose of establishing in general someone's identity by local people (including companies) and authorities. Our article on identity document effectively notes that the UK is one of the few EU countries without one (it mentions it for Denmark and mentions the UK does not have one). A passport, which every country has, is not the same thing since as our article notes "A passport is a document, issued by a national government, which certifies, for the purpose of international travel, the identity and nationality of its holder. The elements of identity are name, date of birth, sex, and place of birth". In other words, the government issues it to enable other countries to be able to identify the holder as a national of their country for the travel purposes. (Given its purpose, whether you actually have a right to a passport also varies, arguably article 13 of the UDHR means you should but not all countries agree.) The fact that many organisations are willing to accept a passport to verify identity, and therefore it's often used in place of a formal identity document in contexts it was not issued for doesn't change this. Ditto for drivers licences which are issued for the purpose of establishing someone's right to drive and the circumstances in which they have that right (and perhaps their identity when they are driving) and of course given that requires the person somehow obtain the right to drive. This doesn't mean identity documents are okay nor does it mean the specific UK scheme such as the inclusion of biometrics was good, it simply means that Lstanley was correct that most European countries do have identity documents, and now that the UK has gotten rid of this, it does not. Nil Einne (talk) 08:02, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poisoned chalice for Labour Party 

message: I note that neither the Critical Workers Identity Card nor the Foreign National Identity Card are mentioned in this article. I have redirected both terms here, however I feel that a brief presentation of both cards is merited. Please see, eg: http://www.ips.gov.uk/identity/scheme-what.asp. --Mais oui! (talk) 06:15, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  CWIC and FNIC 

message: Probably going to have to keep this updated in the near future (or placed in historical context as past legislation) as ID cards and the National Database are on course to be cancelled per the coalition plans.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.225.117.64 (talk) 18:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. It might be a point to move this article to Identity Cards Act 2006 if/when the card scheme gets scrapped. Gabbe (talk) 19:04, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: While they may stop issuing new ID cards, I doubt that any cards already issued could have their validity cancelled early. Many British citizens are already using ID cards instead of passports for travel within the EEA and Switzerland, and immigration authorities in all those countries are already trained to recognise them along with ID cards issued by other EEA member states. Many British citizens are already outside the UK travelling on an ID card rather than a passport, and it would be logistically impossible to cancel those people's valid travel documents while they are already abroad. Bear in mind that some people with ID cards may be living abroad for months or years at a time. It would also cost a lot more to refund the £30 to existing ID card holders than to continue recognising them as valid travel documents. For all these reasons, I think we will continue to need this page, as the cards already issued will undoubtedly continue to exist and remain valid until their expiry dates. NFH (talk) 19:13, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I completely agree NFH, for the same reasons.  Fingers crossed, eh! Qwerta369 (talk) 07:57, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh dear Qwerta369 (talk) 12:46, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed - as the article says, they are to be invalidated, and once the legislation passes we can put this page in a historical context, per Gabbe's suggestion. 62.56.92.254 (talk) 14:36, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

text: The Identity Documents Bill 2010 is scheduled to become law within weeks, but let's say it doesn't. Then it's still not in any way incorrect to keep this article primarily focused on the 2006 Act and its consequences, rather than the wider topic of British identity cards in general. So I've already taken the liberty of moving the article. Gabbe (talk) 17:03, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the way out 

message: Recently, the following:
The National Identity Card is officially recognised as a valid travel document by the EEA and Switzerland. This is the only travel document which is valid for use by UK nationals throughout the EEA and Switzerland
was changed to:
The National Identity Card is officially recognised as a valid travel document by the EEA and Switzerland. This is the only travel document which is valid for use by British citizens throughout the EEA and Switzerland
I have reverted this for the following reason:
A UK National ID Card is only valid for travel throughout the EEA / Switzerland if the British citizen holder is also an EU citizen.  Not all British citizens are EU citizens, such as those from the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands who have no qualifying connection with the United Kingdom.  EU citizens and their family members are able to benefit from the freedom of movement and establishment in other EU Member States, under the provision of EU Directive 2004/38/EC.  British citizens who are not also EU citizens do not benefit from this.  For clarity, a British citizen who is also an EU citizen is termed a "UK national" for EC purposes.  This is the reason why the sentence reads "valid for use by UK nationals" and not "valid for use by British citizens".  Hope that helps. Qwerta369 (talk) 09:37, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry for changing this back again. I hadn't seen the above rationale. NFH (talk) 22:18, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: He Qwerta, I understand from this post that you define a UK-national as a "British Citizen by virtue of its connection to the UK". However United Kingdom national is defined much broader on wikipedia. Can we find an alternative description that is short but exact or should we correct UK national entry? L.tak (talk) 02:45, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi guys.  I didn't know that the United Kingdom national page existed.  You are correct L.tak - that article is in need of correcting.  Some linkage for you here and here. Qwerta369 (talk) 13:16, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  British citizens > UK nationals 

message: I've uploaded at  and the two pages of the letter sent to UK ID card holders on 21/12/2010 with all the details of the cancellation. As some of the information is not published elsewhere, it might be useful to put a link on the page somewhere, but I'll leave it to someone else. NFH (talk) 20:24, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ID cards cancellation letter 

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message: I think the article should be moved to the UK national identity card or Identity cards in the United Kingdom namespace - having the title of the page being an act of parliament isn't very informative in my opinion. The cards were physically issued and were valid, albeit for a short amount of time. Even though they are now invalid and no longer issued - an article on the physical cards is useful. I think a suitable comparison for a discontinued ID card is Bilhete de Identidade (Portugal). Although it should be clear they are no longer issued or valid. 
On another note, I think this article is too lengthy and still does not portray a neutral point of view (as discussed around 15 years ago). It isn't written in an encyclopaedic style, in my opinion. I think the article should focus on the legislation and the function of the cards themselves, rather than the social and political implications of the UK having ID cards - although of course having sections for opposition and controversies.  Drumstick21 (talk) 13:42, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of article and NPOV