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Jul 22

You’ve Come to Collect Your ID Card Sir? Can I See Some Identification?

by Steve

When is a National ID Card not a National ID Card?

Last week Ireland’s state broadcasting news network, RTE reported that next year the government is going to issue every adult in the country with a new PPS Identity Card starting with the unemployed and pensioners first.
Your PPS number is the number you receive when you are registered at birth and this is not a new idea at all.
Two decades ago all adults over the age of 18 received these cards which most still carry and need for social welfare purposes.

So what’s wrong with the old card?

Well to start with it does not have a photo, chip or pin. It’s just a regular mag (magnetic) strike card with limited information on board to be
accessed when needed. It’s not really an ID card but merely a social welfare information card. However, the 2nd generation card will be fitted with all the mod cons of the identity world; photo, chip and pin encrypted, embedded info and will treble up as a bus pass for pensioners and as a medical card which can hold whatever other info may be needed at any time in the future, such as what a criminal record of political affiliation which can be conveniently accessed by whichever government or private authority at that time is authorised to do so.

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