With the publication last Friday of a secret report, the Australian Government seems bent on using the introduction of health care record systems as a back door ID Card system.
Individual Healthcare Identifiers (IHI’s) is seen as the way to get a National ID for every Australian citizen. With only the old Tax number references and passports currently in existence and previous failed attempts at ID Card introduction, this could be the way that Australia finally gets an ID grip on its own citizens.
Could it happen here? Yes and probably already is! As the UK government continues to received such negative press about the UK National ID Card system – too expensive, too intrusive and not free. Electronic Medical Health ID numbers seem an ideal solution for the UK government to finally get a UK ID card in place without any additional cost and resultant bad press.
Perhaps the original ID scheme has been just red herring, albeit a very expensive one.
Paranoid? Perhaps this may be what was planned to happen all along!
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