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You don't have to carry your passport or driving licence with you if you don't want to though.
If you're in Belgium you have to carry your ID card at all times.
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I have a way of proving my identity already, as do 99.9% of the population, so why do we need another way?
Especially one which will store data about everyone in a system that is open to the police. Do you really trust them not to exploit this?
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Interested to know why people here are against them.
Given how much of our data is shared I'm less concerned than when I was younger and I see the advantages.
Being honest, I think I'm largely a product of parents who lived in Continental Europe in the late 6os, mainly France. So the stories about heavy handed CRS doing ID stops and the threat of jail for not having an ID (or being from anywhere south of France) stay with me. I guess I associate them with authoritarianism and they don't quite smell British.
When we've been in France and say I nip to the bakery without an ID they still get really anxious.
So I think the real question is; assuming we adopt ID cards, what happens if you aren't carrying it?
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ID cards in the news again after all these senseless riots.
Interested to know why people here are against them. We basically already have them in driving licenses and passports, and ID cards are already in places like Belgium where (I believe), they are not campaigning to remove.