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Estonia government locks down ID smartcards: Refresh or else

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"Ireland's currently and rather controversially rolling out a "voluntary" electronic ID card which is required for claiming all types of social payment, applying for a driving test or a passport and a number of other things"

Ireland already has a "voluntary electronic ID card" - the drivers licence.

"Add to that Ireland now has a postal code system called Eircode that assigns a unique 7 character alphanumeric code to every address, not to a street / area like UK or most other systems." Millions of Euro spent to have some person generate an alphanumeric postbox identifier, carefully crafted so that snobs in Dublin would still have 'D4' in their postcode, when other systems could have been adopted for a fraction: Loc8 was offered, OpenPostcode is completely free.

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