UK ID card service mounts birth, marriage, death landgrab | The Register

UK ID card service mounts birth, marriage, death landgrab | The Register

"... IPS has entirely and obviously unfeasible plans to make money by promoting itself to the status of the UK's de facto identity services broker, with passport validation and identity verification services being early manifestations of how it proposes to make money out of this. But if IPS is to be able to grow its offerings from simply checking if a passport is genuine into a general ID verification service, then it makes sense to have everybody in the database, ..."

So if they want to make money out of the ID cards. How come the cost to the punter proposed is so high? Eh? Eh?