I think at the end of your statement you mentioned its effect on civil liberties, and that's the main concern there: it's a bit outside the field of identity theft. We're also concerned that it won't necessarily lead to the magic bullet, if you will, about identity theft, again because it's not just that someone gets a hold of your identification; it's also that it's very easy to then obtain credit. It's difficult for the victim after they've been victimized to remove past traces of credit and to rehabilitate their credit. So the identity theft objection we have to using biometrics and national identity cards is that on one side there's, again, the public security point of view from civil society that this is not the way to go to monitor people to that extent. We're concerned that it will become a way to track you through your daily life, if you will, because you'll have to present your identity card everywhere you go, and it's then easy to trail people, and that has implications for civil liberties. Then, on the other hand, it may not solve identity theft altogether.
On May 15th, 2007. See this statement in context.