Well it comes as no surprise to me the news that Lord Falconer has told the BBC that the only way to get full benefit from the Identity Card scheme was for people without a passport to carry one.
It has been the government line all along that the cards would be compulsory. I am worried though that the government is pretty much pushing through biometric identity cards in the form of passports though. Whether the Identity Card bill is passed or not the UK will end up with a massive biometric identity register of millions of UK citizens.
The UK already has the most surveillance cameras per capita of any country in the world and now we learn that the UK also has the largest DNA database of it’s citizens in the world with about 5% of the poulation’s DNA profile being held.
Tags: ID cards, surveillance
