UK Can't Read Its Own ID Cards

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UK Can't Read Its Own ID Cards

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 4, 2009 @09:11PM from the forest-for-the-trees dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Despite the introduction of ID cards last November, it has emerged that Britain has no readers that are able to read the cards' microchips, which contain the person's fingerprints and other biometric information. With cops and border guards unable to use the cards to check a person's identity, critics are calling the £4.7bn scheme 'farcical' and a 'waste of time.'"

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privacy by justhatched · 2009-02-04 21:17 · Score: 5, Funny

It is a security measure
1. Re:privacy by davester666 · 2009-02-04 21:53 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  except everybody BUT the gov't can read them...
  it's funny, but sad-funny.
  
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Re:You don't say. by BobisOnlyBob · 2009-02-04 22:05 · Score: 5, Funny

That sentence no verb!! You have no idea how much that me. >:(
Re:You don't say. by molecular · 2009-02-04 22:08 · Score: 5, Funny

I accidentally the card's microchip, is this bad? :(
not if you didn't the chip on purpose, then you only have to money, not to jail.
Re:"in response to an FoI request"?!? by JohnBailey · 2009-02-04 22:27 · Score: 5, Funny

About 9 years ago.
It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard.

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Re:Look at Belgium by Goffee71 · 2009-02-04 22:41 · Score: 5, Funny

and when the credit crunch really bites, pony sausages and a nice warm coat

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Re:Look at Belgium by rHBa · 2009-02-04 23:28 · Score: 5, Funny

We could call it the OPPC project