John Lettice in the Register and Philip Johnston in the Telegraph report that the UK’s ID scheme already has more than 80 people working on it, according to figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats.
This now includes 40 consultants from PA Consulting, who were awarded an 18-month £10 million contract last year – on top of [...]
British holidaymakers travelling to France and several other European countries will be required to undergo fingerprint checks under new rules announced yesterday, writes Nicholas Watt in the Guardian.
The tougher controls, announced yesterday by the European commission in Brussels, will come into effect in 2007 and will apply to holders of new biometric passports.
Travellers will be [...]
The ever-vigilant Statewatch report that the EU Council Presidency are recommending the current biometric visa proposals be abandoned due to “collision” of chips and will ask the EU Commission to amend its proposal.
A report from the Netherlands that over 225,000 applications for identity cards have been filed in the last two months. Everyone aged 14 or over must carry valid identification or face a fine under a new law that came into force on 1st January 2005.
Dozens of people have already been fined since the early hours [...]
Wendy Grossman’s report in Wired contains a couple of quotes from me:
“I am convinced it will turn into something akin to the poll tax,” said Phil Booth, national coordinator for No2ID. The poll tax, proposed by Margaret Thatcher’s government in the late 1980s, was intended to replace property taxes with an individual tax based on [...]
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