By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor
Telegraph
06 May 2009
Post offices, high street pharmacies and photo shops are in talks with the Home Office to offer facilities for customers to have their biometric details taken
The move came as it emerged the estimated cost of the controversial scheme has risen by another £213 million.
Post offices, high street pharmacies and photo shops are in talks with the Home Office to offer facilities for customers to have their biometric details taken for when they apply for an ID card or new passport.
It would mean anyone who wants an identity card or biometric passport will go to their local post office or pharmacy to have their fingerprints read and stored along with a face scan.
Ms Smith said: “While private companies will clearly benefit from the increased footfall from offering this service, their customers will benefit from being able to quickly provide their biometrics while they are out doing the shopping. ”
But Phil Booth, of privacy campaign group No2ID, said: “We are talking about a Government that cannot even look after the data of millions of people now asking your local camera shop to process sensitive personal data, including fingerprints.”
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via Chemists and post offices to take fingerprints as part of national ID scheme – Telegraph.
h/t: CLG
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I’m definitely not goin there, 1984 4 real.
Isn’t it?
This is the same government that gave us the Mai Lai massacre, Kent State, Abu Ghraib, the Iraq invasion, and, for lack of a better term, the “Period of Great Unrest” during the 1990’s. (In the U.S., one doesn’t talk about such things. It is much like the situation in Russia during the 1970’s, when people used euphemisms like “the Soviet excesses” to describe the purge of hundreds of thousands by Stalin during the 1930’s.)
What idiot would entrust the government with personal, biological information?
Go straight to Hell.
Except this story is from the UK. Sorry that I didn’t make that clear, will add (UK) to the title now.