Home Secretary bigs up fingerprint-activated iPods.
Home Secretary John Reid is asking Apple and Sony, and other
manufacturers, to join his crime fighting summit. The summit will look
at what manufacturers can do to add "anti-crime" features to their products.
A Blair policy review, released last month, raised the red herring very
clever plan of fingerprint-activated MP3 players - we explain why this
is silly a great idea here. Street robberies rose slightly according to
Home Office figures. iPods and expensive mobile phones are often blamed
for fuelling this growth. iPods and expensive mobile phones are often
blamed for fuelling this growth.
Reid, interviewed on Sunday AM, said new gadgets mean criminals move on
to stealing new types of products. Which they might continue to do
whether the Home Office legislates to make fingerprint-activation
compulsory on mobile phones or not.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/30/reid_fingers_iphone/
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