Biometric ID Cards Trialled in Glasgow

StuWho writes "The Register is reporting a trial of Biometric ID Cards in Glasgow, Scotland. The trial is one of several tests prior to the implimentation of a universal UK ID card. It also carries reports of how you can evade the sensors by doing something as simple as crying. 'It costs the UK 1.3 billion a year, and facilitates organised crime, illegal immigration, benefit fraud, illegal working and terrorism,' Home Office Minister Des Browne said. He then said that the ID card would fix all this, but did not say how. It's not only in the US where governments are using the excuse of terrorism to infringe on civil liberties."

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And now for the usual sarcasm about Revelations.

[The I Shing]

And the ID card will be grafted onto the right hand or forehead of the bearer, and will contain a 666-character identification number. Persons without ID cards will be disallowed from engaging in commerce of any kind, and those actively refusing to wear the ID card will be summarily put to death.

When questioned about the potential reactions from devout Christians, government officials replied, "Revelations of what, now?"

The entertainment biz

[Freston Youseff]

and French people don't like George Bush. Film at 11.

thank you!

[sbma44]

Aren't we nerds supposed to feel a sense of antipathy toward horrible marketingspeak like this? You can't "trial" something. You can't "task" someone. Stop verbing nouns.

And in other news,

[Anonymous Coward]

Nouns verbed in Slashdot article header.

Come on, "trialled"?

Hmmm.

[H09N0X10U5]

'It costs the UK 1.3 billion a year, and facilitates organised crime, illegal immigration, benefit fraud, illegal working and terrorism,' Home Office Minister Des Browne said.

But that's enough about the EU...