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Story: Home Office looks to high street for ID biometrics

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Posted by: 1000215420 (Thursday 6 November 2008, 2:57 PM)

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Home Office again!

Yet again we have a ridiculous plan from the Home Office which would be wide open to fraud and misuse - and, surprise, surprise, (think they'd never learn?) data available for loss and theft.
Want a new identity? Then go to M&S Store or Thomas Cook or wherever to be finger printed and photographed and make an ID.
Resident non UK nationals should certainly have ID cards and other EU residents who have their own ID cards should have them swiped on entry and exit. Visitors would have their valid passports.
But to be of real use, ID cards must be secure in production and use.

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