mobile technology is highly relevant to ID cards. Apart from the cost, the privacy and freedom issues and all that, will the technology work ? Will PC Plod have a wireless connected ID card reader and iris scanner to validate you when stoppped in the street "at random".

Phil

You're bound to want to know: "Why on earth are you discussing ID cards in a mobile technology newsletter?"

Well, the thing that fascinates me: why are the Government so obsessed with doing something that people hate, when they could achieve far better results by piggy-backing the data that mobile networks already have?

We'll follow up...