More ID

Richard Allan has an interesting post on ID cards from the IT perspective:

A classic scenario for an information technology project doomed to failure is for people to identify a solution they want to implement without properly defining the problem they are trying to address. The Government’s proposals to introduce an identity card sit firmly in this category.

I can remember ID cards being trumpeted as the solution to many 'problems' over the years (anyone else remember the proposed ID cards for football supporters that were going to stop hooliganism in the 80s?) and this is just their latest incarnation.