U.K. Tests Biometric Passports

KingFishKingFish
edited April 2004 in Science & Tech
Parliament also considers mandatory ID cards with biometric aspects. The U.K. Passport Service has launched a six-month trial of biometric technology involving 10,000 volunteers, the same day the government introduced its draft bill for potentially compulsory biometric identity cards and a central database of all of its citizens.
ID cards will carry biometric identifiers in an embedded chip. The chip is linked to the National Identity Register, described as a "secure national database" by David Blunkett, U.K. Secretary of State for the Home Department, who proposed the idea last November.
Secure national database? Build it and the hackers will come. -KingFish

Source: PCWorld
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