Christine O’Neill, writing in the Scotsman, analyses to what extent the Scottish Parliament can extricate Scotland from the ID cards scheme:
With ID cards there are a number of legal questions that arise for a Scottish Government that may wish to oppose the introduction of such a scheme. The first is whether the Scottish Parliament is [...]

The Register reports that German hackers have published a fingerprint from the country’s interior minister as a protest against the proposed inclusion of fingerprints in passports there. Dan Goodin writes:
A hacker club has published what it says is the fingerprint of Wolfgang Schauble, Germany’s interior minister and a staunch supporter of the collection of citizens’ [...]

According to the New Scientist “Feedback” column:
THE UK government remains hell-bent on introducing biometric identity cards. We have to wonder how many of the civil servants behind the scheme have tried using the iris-recognition technology the government introduced a year ago to make it quicker to get through passport control at UK airports and which [...]

Tim Ferguson writes on the Silicon.com web site:
Plans to introduce biometric fingerprint checks for domestic passengers travelling through Heathrow Airport have been delayed after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) raised privacy concerns about the system.
A statement from BAA, which operates Heathrow, said the introduction of fingerprinting technology would be “temporarily delayed” following a meeting with [...]

John Lettice writes in The Register:
Interviews for first time passport applicants have been massively successful – because, er, no fraudulent applications at all have been detected since the government introduced the system last May. In answer to a Freedom of Information request, the Home Office said last week that 38,391 interviews had been held to [...]