I used to be fiercely against ID cards but we need photo ID for so much nowadays. Even just getting concert tickets. Doesn't the government have all our info anyway? NI numbers, NHS records, HMRC, DWP. They can track us (if they wanted to) through contactless payments, phone records, bank transactions, supermarkets and other shops have a lot of detail about us, Google, Facebook, Skype, they all know pretty much everything about us. So really for me ID cards becomes an issue of poverty. Those who can afford photo ID (drivers or passport) and then those who can't - and are therefore faced with additional barriers to access sometimes essential services.