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Re:Unified EU electronic identity card by QuadDamaged on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @05:26AM (#7626599)
Case in point: HMRC (UK Taxman) is about to sell 'anonymized' taxpayer data. With enough 'anonymized' data-dumps and CPU power, at some point, it will become trivial to correlate an ID Card ID with datapoints.
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Re:Unified EU electronic identity card by pisarzp on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @05:40AM (#7626653)
I actually think it's the other way round.

I actually think the other way.

In countries where you have ID card, you just show it to confirm your identity and you're done.

In UK you need to bring your bank statement and utility bills, with your address. Combined with your date of birth, it makes it much easier to match with companies database.

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Re:Unified EU electronic identity card by bozho on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @05:33AM (#7626623)
No. Read about anonymous credentials ;)
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