From: Tavia tavia@btinternet.com (Sorry, meant to put this in last post.) Why should one have to prove one's *identity*?

So my building society can be sure they aren't handing over my debit and atm cards to the wrong person. That's the main one. Bureaucracy again.

Yes, prove the right to drive, to make purchases using this

bank card, to cross borders with this nationality, but why one single (and trackable) identity? There's been many times in my life where the three things I've mentioned have all been in different names.

Only because that's the only identity I've got, Tavia. I've never established another identity, so I've never had to go through trying to get this, that and the other piece of paraphernalia.

<smile> Hmm, maybe we should have another acronym: IMHE (In My Humble Experience)!

Surely I should have the right to putter round doing my lawful business under as many different identities as it pleaseth me ? And if I want to concoct a new one for the hell of it, then why not?

Sure, go ahead. I'll even applaud it, the operative word being lawful. But without some means of establishing that this human being here is entitled to those things in her/his name, it can be awkward enough dealing with some organisations when you have only one identity to play with.

I think I'd be useless at having several identities at once. Let's hope my life never has to depend on it.

Regards Joanne

"...It follows that in our view the test... had no application to the admissability of the evidence concerning the coffee incident." --Full Federal Court ruling, AHF paragraph 17-420.

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