Well, I could do with a new passport photo anyway :)
RE: the ID cards. My lecturer was going all Romantic on me, pleading 'Don't let yourself become a number!'. And I just pointed out that, he didn't know my name, but he sure as hell will know my student number. We are, in many ways, viewed and recognised by many many places and agencies by numbers: policy numbers, flight numbers, seat tickets, car registration number, account numbers and so on. So I'm really not fazed by this at all. Which is a complete surprise to me - normally I'm very much against measures like ID cards. But this time, I don't really care. Not for it, not against it, just accepting the inevitability of a move towards that kind of society.
For what it's worth, though, I think it way to simple to start quoting Orwell; that's just lazy to me. An ID card is not going to make this a totalitarian state. As I say, the move towards identification by statistics has already happened - it happened with the boom of computer databases in the 80's. An ID card is just a permanent personal reminder of that, in your wallet.