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Card Makers Say UK Citizens Want Biometric ID Cards

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 2, 2003 @07:31PM 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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Re:recent? by lateralus_1024 · 2003-02-02 19:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

No that one wasn't biometricly valid.

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In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-02 20:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

they have same thing!
Arent these the same people that ... by webmaker · 2003-02-02 20:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

have no clue what a toothbrush is? Big surprise!
Congratulations! by gazbo · 2003-02-02 21:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That was the gayest comment EVAH! I realise that on Slashdot this is an incredibly hard dream to realise, but YOU DID IT!
Like Sadam (off-topic) by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-02 21:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I heard that the approval for the war against Sadam Hussein also has 80% approval in USA. It seems one can get support for anything with a good marketing.