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Card Makers Say UK Citizens Want Biometric ID Cards

Posted by timothy on from the what-a-coincidence dept.

ArsonPanda writes "ZDnet is running a story on a recent survey in the UK showing overwhelming 80% public support of universal, biometricly enhanced citizen ID cards. Everybody here's fine with supplying the gubmit w/ your retinal scans and fingerprints, right?"

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  1. I don't think this is going to happen... by pr1000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to the BBC most people are against such an ID card and plans for one will most likely be abandoned.

    Here are some links:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2688697.stm
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2657143.stm
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2583651.stm

  2. Re:CCTV anyone? by Burb · · Score: 5, Informative
    This CCTV thing is a typical Slashdot knee-jerk response to any "civil liberties" issue in the UK. It applies to shopping centres and places like that. There's no CCTV in my street, my neighbourhood, my house, my garage, my desk....

    Good grief, if someone snatches my wallet I'd be quite glad if CCTV helped to catch the thief. Wasn't CCTV evidence used to catch the killers of Jamie Bulger?

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