Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them. A "waste of time" for biometric ID checks...
By Nick Heath. The first UK ID cards have already been issued - but no UK police officers or border guards have any way of reading the data stored on them. Currently no police stations, border entry points or job centres have readers for the card's biometric chip, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) revealed in response to an FoI (Freedom of Information) request by silicon.com about the ?4.7bn identity cards scheme. The broken nature of that link has already prompted criticism by the government's political rivals. Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said: "Once again ministers have shown that the ID card project is absolutely farcical. What is the point of spending billions of pounds on cards that can't be read in the UK?" more... http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39391135,00.htm _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
