Shaneel_hcs

Sould Australians have a citizen ID card?
 * __Ethics of database use

Pros__** Only have to carry one card with you It is easier to keep track of you are a person eg. If you want to loan money from the bank they can look up infroamtion on your dadtabase as to if you pay up your debts or loans Cut down on identity fraud Make it harder for terroists to enter the country becasue only citizens of the counrty will have an identity card If it gets lost and someone picks it up they can gain access to all your accounts Its easy to lose a card whereas if you only lose one of your many cards it does not affect you as bad as if it were a ID card with all your accounts They are very expensive
 * __Cons__**

__**ID cards used in other countries South Africa**__ South Africa is introuding ID cards and Passports in an cat to stop identiy fraud. ID books are already commonplace in South Africa, and include a photograph and the finger print of the holder. This new legislation would swap the existing paper-based format for a credit card-style ID card with the biometric data stored on a chip, with the transition beginning in six months' time. But the process, which is expected to take around five years, looks set to be anything but simple. One concerned reader told us:

"We currently have compulsory ID books - large parts of the population don't have one, because they can't afford them (and the new one is about 10 time more expensive). Many still haven't converted from the previous format to the current one, which has now been compulsory for about 10 years.

The new-style ID card will cost R120. Minimum wage in South Africa is R4.10 per hour Costs have not been announced for the new passports.