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Welcome to the world where your government does not actually have a proper, audited, secure and centralized database of all its citizens. Even third-world countries have it better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006#Object...

Reasons for disbanding it:

1. Costs

2. "Effectiveness"

3. "Racism"

4. "Privacy Concerns"




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