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Aye. Civil service/institutional culture has a lot to do with this. There are countries where the population trust administrators with this kind of thing and even some countries where the administrators deserve it. In the UK, both public and private sector have a pretty shitty attitude with regard to information, protective of information that should be shared, careless of the information/privacy rights of individuals.
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Would they though? Wouldn't the implementation of ID cards have been just as incompetently handled as settled status and everything else. I think a lot of the resistance was because people did not trust that they wouldn't be mis-used by government, but also because they didn't trust that they wouldn't become some public-private commercial interests nightmare. Anglo civil liberties or not, there would be a lot less issue if people thought it would be done competently in a carefully limited capacity.