3 ms·

Actually, we're not that happy about it. Unfortunately those who probably would care are too busy consuming the noise of the numerous wars, inquiries, showbiz,

• DanBC 14y ago
  See the calm when ID cards were first proposed. Most people just didn't care. There were some vocal anti-ID card campaigns pointing out the real faults of the proposed scheme, but most people either didn't care or thought it was a good idea. (A lot of wingnut racists who thought (wrongly) that it'd sort out the illegal immigrant "problem".) It was only as time went on and the costs increased and the benefits decreased that more people started being against the card. The death knell came when the government announced that each card would cost > £100. See also the number of people who think that everyone should be on the Police DNA database; the number of people who'd volunteer to have their DNA on that database. It's only relatively recently that people have started campaigning to have data removed for people who haven't been convicted or charged of a crime. There isn't much fuss around cctv cameras; or around automatic number plate recognition cameras; or around laws enforcing specific fonts to allow anpr cameras to work. Your last sentence sums up the problem nicely: most people care more about X Factor than about privacy.