I suggest that next time Deborah wants to make a point, she should go ahead and show her ID card - dressed in a black balaclava and dark sunglasses. Bill, is it an offence to hide ones face? If it is, then the prisons should be brimming with middle eastern women, people that dared to go to fancy dress parties, women who wear lots of makeup, and how about those guys that have hair all over their face?

You get the point. In our current society, governments need for more surveillance is just as stretched as peoples need for more privacy. The answer lies not with pushing the line either way. The answer is that the democratic society structure that’s been used for centuries no longer works. Why? Too many people, too much tax, too much cheap annonymous communications that are not subject to oversight, and too much oversight that is not sobject to oversight (abuse of government power). Identity Theft *will* see to it that the change will be coming soon. Watch this space.