ID card scheme still flawed

A new report out on ID cards' biometrics makes discouraging reading for proponents of the scheme. "Phil Booth, national coordinator of the No2ID campaign, said the report confirmed millions would suffer inconvenience, distress and worse under the ID regime. He said: 'Suggestions manual checks will suffice every time the computer says 'no' begs the question, what is the point of the system in the first place?' He said the problems raised about the biometrics were fundamental and meant that compulsory fingerprinting would embed discrimination at the heart of the ID card scheme. 'Higher failure rates for the old, ethnic minorities, the disabled and the infirm risk creating a biometric underclass,' he warned."
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