This morning I spotted 2 articles in the press that demonstrate that the introduction of both the ID Cards and the Bio-Passport will go no way to protect us. 

Article 1 shows how the card readers can be hacked into, and if the guys at Cambridge labs can do it, so can determined hackers, so your ID card details will never be safe.

unless 

Article 2 shows how some people are thinking about how they want to self protect their data from hackers in a fairly simplistic way.

Neither of these articles are condoned, but unfortunately they still do not protect you the user from the Government collecting all this information about you in the first place.