http://news.ft.com/cms/s/19855b04-57d8-11da-8866-00000e25118c.html
Frederick Studemann
"Business will be the biggest winner of government plans to introduce identity cards, according to Charles Clarke, who has claimed the private sector could save up to ?425m from the controversial scheme. The home secretary said the cards 'will prove invaluable to business' as they would be an effective tool to combat fraud and speed up business processes where verification of identity costs time and money. ID cards would also allow more and higher value businesses to be conducted on the internet, he writes in an article in today's Financial Times." [Sub ~Required]
