Privacy? Not in England

Yeesh. Unfortunately, this will likely give ol' Tom DeLay and Bill Frist ideas - bad ones.

Personal details of all 44 million adults living in Britain could be sold to private companies as part of government attempts to arrest spiralling costs for the new national identity card scheme, set to get the go-ahead this week.

Nice. The PMs require the ID cards and then they sell them to cover the cost of the requirement, with no doubt a few shillings left to line their own pockets.