here in England our wonderous government has desided that we all need to carry identity cards encoded with some form of biometric information and we are told this will help in the crusade against terrorism in some inexplicable way.This is despite the fact that even the most accurate biometric methods are subject to a 10% failure rate when used to identify a unique individual.
As if this wasnt bad enough our wonderous and indeed fearless leaders are going to use this to introduce a HUGE databse on every person,or should that be citizen? in greatbritain. avaialable nodoubt to anyone who has the brain power to circumvent a firewall.You can read all the hidious details at www.ntk.net and you can bet your bottom dollar or yen or whatever that it will get about as much press coverage as the new laws which allow any tinpot local government offical to read your email track your interweb movements and bug your phone.
Far be it for me to suggest that our fearless leaders are using this ridiculous 'war on terror' to introduce laws that certain groups have been itching to get into place for the past 50 years.