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Welcome back. It was a future * vision of efficiency or our wily nightmare depending on your point of view. The government had been planning two huge computer databases, one to store our personal identity information, the other are health records. Well, yesterday a bank diagnostic compulsory inclusion in the medical records computer, and today we learn the ID card system is not quite going to be first visited. LK reports.

It may look like just a photo opportunity for journalists, but this was the home office far in what is called the starting gun for the national identity scheme. But as the noise about dive down, you notice there is U-turn, too. The government decided not to go ahead with one central database to the ID card scheme, the so-called clean system it has promised all along. Instead the information will be stored on 3 existing computer systems to save money. The home office will store your biometric data: fingerprints, iris scan and facial recognition information. The Department for work and pensions will store your biographic footprint, the basic facts about you: name, address and data of birth. And the identity and passport service will store details of card used issue and use of ID card itself.

What the government is proposing is something for less secure, and actually very hard to see how they are going to manage or control. Then the clean, new database, the National Identity Register that they have been promising to Parliament from the very beginning of introducing, the identity card bill. What they are proposing is essentially to just designate pieces of data that held the existing government database that are mixed in with other piece of government data. And saying: that's the register.

The Home Secretary wasn't giving interviews today, but did issue a statement: doing something sensible is not necessarily a U-turn. We have decided it is lower risk, more efficient and faster to take the infrastructure that already exists, although the data will be drawn from other sources.

Conservatives have said the move shows cost are out of control, and criticized Home Secretary for they say: sneaking out the news in a written statement.

Well, I am joined that by Dr. AW from London School of Economics. He has a precise project into the ID card scheme. So explain to me first what difference does it actually make to you or me, whether or not the government uses a whole new computer database for this built on top of next existing one?

I think one of the most important differences is the original plans for the brand-new database would going to have the security built in from the very beginning because having all of your personal data, your biometric, etc, a very important thing that needs to be kept secure. The current plan seems to involve using existing database which is a little cheaper to do, but there is no guarantee that the security will be built in from the very beginning and adding on security to existing database is often a recipe for more problems than it triedwould actually solve.

But even if it is built completely from scratch, is it really any such a thing as a safe and secure database?

No, that's one of the problems with the whole bases of the design the government has in, whether in 3 databases or one database, still putting all of the data in one particular location. It was interesting with the proposals for the children's database that the details of the Prime Minister's children, celebrity's children would not be stored there because, well, there might be a security risk. And yet all of our datas intended to be put onto the now these 3 databases out of one database.

The other thing that people get concerned about is whether or not the information is going to be held by them is incorrect, because we know mistakes already exist in the government records. Does this whether proposing today mean more likely the mistakes will be transferred into our ID cards.

Well, that's the bit, that's really not clear. They talk about using existing government databases, for example, from the department of work and pensions, but department of work and pensions,for example, has more national insurance, 10% of people in the country, so using existing data is not necessarily a great way for it because the data is not clean, their error was not put in as carefully, and that was why the previous plan said it will built from scratch with a completely clean database.

When do you think any of us might actually have an ID card, now W?

Well, politically at least 2 people will have a card by 2009, but they talk about cards and 2009. Beyond that, slowly possibly from 2010 if everything goes well, but once again the government is rushing for political timetables rather than thinking through what really needs to be done to build efficient identity measure for the country.

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