Why are the British paranoid about official ID?

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2007-09-28 07:57am

Man, our ID cards suck compared to these

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2007-09-28 08:15am

PeZook wrote:Man, our ID cards suck compared to these

Ours don't have fancy computer chips, though those are coming, instead they just have layers of holographic stuff.

That is not me, thankfully.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2007-09-28 08:24am

What I love the most is how you can have your card blocked if it's stolen. This is an awesome feature.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-09-28 08:26am

PeZook wrote:What I love the most is how you can have your card blocked if it's stolen. This is an awesome feature.

It'd standard on debit cards, so why not in ID's?

The procedure's the same, too: you just call a hotline (or visit your town hall/police station), they block the card and start up the procedure to make a new one.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2007-09-28 08:29am

Bounty wrote: It'd standard on debit cards, so why not in ID's?

The procedure's the same, too: you just call a hotline (or visit your town hall/police station), they block the card and start up the procedure to make a new one.

Yeah, I know. It's that it simply didn't occur to me you could do that with ID cards as well. The best ideas are sometimes the most obvious ones.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2007-09-28 08:58am

Yeah, that´s some cool ID cards. They even made them the right size so they fit into your wallet.
The German idiot ID designers thought it would be a good idea to use a different, larger format making it necessary to have larger standard sizes for wallets.
Also, it doesn´t have a funky chip like ALL cards have nowadays.
Oh, and they should implement an MP3 player.

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2007-10-06 09:16am

Ace Pace wrote:

[enlarged]That is not me, thankfully. [/enlarged]

Oh, so you're not Harry Potter and Bounty is not a pretty woman that vaguely resembles Anni-Frid Lyngstad from ABBA?