UK ID cards
The first UK ID cards have already been issued - but no UK police officers or border guards have any way of reading the data stored on them.
Currently no police stations, border entry points or job centres have readers for the card's biometric chip, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) revealed in response to an FoI (Freedom of Information) request by silicon.com about the £4.7bn identity cards scheme.
www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39391135,00.htm
I guess we'll just have to wait for the government to lose all the data, and somebody to post it on the net ...