Identity Cards Bill

Is there not a terrific difference between, first, the system of Barclays Bank having all sorts of information about you, which the noble Earl said is voluntarily given and confined to Barclays Bank—unless of course it is improperly accessed, which it is—and, secondly, the state collecting it and, under the Bill, having wide powers to share that information and to sell it commercially? Surely there is a big difference.