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£4.7bn ID card scheme faces new stumbling block over fingerprinting
Martin Bentham
DAILYMAIL
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Jacqui Smith today admitted that it will be impossible to include fingerprints of some people on the Government’s ID cards.
The revelation will raise new doubts about the effectiveness of the scheme.
But the Home Secretary claimed such difficulties were ‘wholly exceptional’ and said efforts to obtain alternative biometric data were under way.
Her admission, however, is likely to be seized on by opponents as further evidence that the £4.7billion ID card scheme will be unworkable as well as unnecessarily expensive.
The Home Secretary’s comments came at a Westminster news conference as she unveiled a first identity card for foreign nationals.
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It is blue and pink, the size of a credit card, and carries the royal crest and four flowers representing the nations of the UK: the rose, the thistle, the daffodil and the shamrock.
The card is due to be released in November for all foreign students from outside the European Economic area – the EU plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein – and to migrants seeking marriage visas.
The card is then due to be rolled out to all foreign nationals who visit from outside the European Economic area for more than six months by 2011.
Ms Smith said it would improve national security and help combat fraud and illegal immigration.
She said: ‘Many people want securely and quickly to be able to prove their identity and want to be able to check people are who they say they are.’
She denied that problems with obtaining fingerprints from a minority of people – such as the elderly or those with missing fingers – would undermine the scheme but admitted that the Government was still working to find a solution to such difficulties.
‘It is so exceptional that it will not undermine the fundamental nature of the scheme,’ she said.
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September 25th, 2008 at 10:03 am
just take a microchip and go straight to hell like the Holy Bible says will happen !!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm_xX1Ur43I
September 25th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
They aren’t getting my fingerprint come hell or highwater.
End of story.
I will snap my ID card infront of her face and throw it back on the street in refusal and get others to. They can forget about this plan getting off the ground.
NO2ID will prevail.
September 26th, 2008 at 1:32 am
The mail has been one of the most stalwart of NWO propaganda tools. Making a big deal about not being able to get fingerprints of everyone paves the way for the Gov response justifying using ‘alternative’ biometric data.
evil beyond belief
September 26th, 2008 at 4:38 am
They’re not having my fingerprint either! The US and Japan are already off my travel list until common sense prevails! Lets hope there’s still enough people with common sense out there to get us through all the evil doings!!
I am Soooooo sick of fake terrorist stories! The only terrorists are the ones implementing such outrages systems as the ID card! THEY ARE THE ONES WE SHOULD BE MOST CONCERNED ABOUT!
I hope the people of world wake up soon, it’s going to take a lot of us to fight this.
September 26th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Me either they can forget that,why do they need to know who I am? What will they do if i refuse? put me in gaol? I’m already in their fuckin gaol innit..