It has been hard to ignore some of the rumblings about the government's Access Card program, designed to improve the process around health and social services.

Problem is, there is an database nerd inside me that can see the merits of unified identity for what must be hunderds of computer systems of varying vintages in misc government departments.  The twitchy paranoid inside me detects that eerie National ID Card smell about them.  So I'm torn.

I wouldn't like to give the impression I know enough about this program to give informed critique, but I'm keeping an eye on this one...