Recent trials suggest that the technology has difficulty in recognising bald men, black people and those with brown eyes. In an attempt to limit wrong identifications, people will be required to give their fingerprints, iris prints and a photograph but there are fears that even a small proportion of false matches will affect a large number of people. The trials showed that electronic recognition systems, used to validate whether the person with an ID card is who they say they are, failed in one in every 1,000 cases. This would be the equivalent of 13,500 wrong identifications at Britain's airports every month ... one in six people will not be able to get ID cards because the biometric data may not be recordable on their card's implanted computer chip. They will therefore find it hard to access the services such as health care and pensions to which ID cards are eventually intended to give "entitlement".
I'm not coming across anything that really reassures me about ID cards.
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