Who will accept ID cards?

[Adrian Midgley]

2009/7/31 Roland Perry <lists at internetpolicyagency.com>

> In article <4A7203E5.20804 at gmail.com>, Adrian Midgley <amidgley at gmail.com>
> writes
>
>>


> Already, nobody cares _what_ the address is.
>>
>
> When you are entering into a financial transaction of the kind that
> commonly requires a "gas bill" ID, then the supplier most definitely wants
> to know 'where you live'. So they can send the debt collectors round if you
> default.
>

Not exactly.
They want to know where you are _once you have defaulted_.

This seems more likely to be achieved via a single national ID card, with a
single national list of addresses, and a single national list of people who
have asked for people's addresses, the latter being made available to the
people with the addresses, of course.

The person moving into an address, and asking for gas to be supplied there,
does not usually show a utility bill for that address.
-- 
Adrian Midgley   http://www.defoam.net/
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