Well, more on topic, I find the opposite strange: that the same people who are outraged about NSA imply that people who are against mandatory government ID card

Well, more on topic, I find the opposite strange: that the same people who are outraged about NSA imply that people who are against mandatory government ID cards are stupid - such as the GP. In Denmark, you can barely sneeze without giving up your CPR (Central Person Registry) number. Taxes, health, public transport travel record, phone records, bank records and more are all indexed on the CPR number. They live in separate databases and the shutters between those databases are mostly solid, but there is much less opposition to attempts to lower the barriers to access of this data that I'm comfortable with. At the end of the day, why would you trust one end of the government (the above) and not another (NSA) with your data?