Anyone know more about this BT "uk identity verification" scheme?

[Ian G Batten]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Ian Miller wrote:
> Put simply over Draconian regulation is counter-productive, as it
> legitimises by-passing the regulation.  I think there is little doubt that
> the 'money laundering' regulations are already well into this hole.
> Nevertheless I confidently predict that the Home Office will continue to
> dig.

It would be interesting to look, with hindsight, at the distorting
effects of those great shibboleths of the past, exchange control and
resale price maintenance.  My parents have many tales of how the middle
classes circumvented both of them, but the real impact is that ludicous
laws with no obvious `bad' associated with them encourage a general
perception of govenment as enacting laws for their own sake.  And that's
bad for all of us.

ian