Thursday, January 12, 2006

Councils set to enforce ID cards / Contractor UK, 11 Jan 2006

http://www.contractoruk.com/news/002461.html
"Local councilors are to 'police' the government's national ID Cards Database and fine residents £2,500 if they fail to register or update their personal details, a Whitehall paper has revealed. Published by the Department of Constitutional Affairs, the document proposes a centralised electronic register of voters to link with the national Database, so local bureaucrats can compare data and 'investigate' any discrepancies.

The new database, known as CORE, will be overseen by a �keeper� who will receive daily information from electoral registration offices (EROs), enabling checks to be made against the national dataset, thereby exposing anomalies and potential frauds.

According to the Whitehall paper, released in December, �the government is proposing a structure that retains independent local systems but requires them to mirror their information to a central data repository.�"