Identity cards in the UK

Posted by Robert Holmes on Jun 27, 2005; 11:16am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Identity-cards-in-the-UK-tp520385.html

London School of Economics have just come out with a damning report on
Blair's proposed ID cards
(http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Politics/documents/2005/06/27/identit
yreport.pdf) . They criticise the concept for all sorts of reasons (cost,
civil liberties, unproven biometric technology etc.) but one in particular
was intriguing -  "successful identity theft of a person's biometric data
would mean that their fingerprints or iris scans are permanently in the
hands of criminals, with little hope of revoking them."

Get new fingers and eyes installed?

Robert

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