Comments on: ‘I’ve got a biometric ID card’ http://www.samizdata.net/2004/08/ive-got-a-biometric-id-card/ A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:07:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jim P http://www.samizdata.net/2004/08/ive-got-a-biometric-id-card/#comment-241682 Jim P Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:33:39 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=6537#comment-241682 “My prints appeared on a computer screen and within minutes were compared against one million others which, for the sake of the pilot scheme, had been imported from the US.”

Nice of one million US citizens to volunteer their fingerprints to a foreign government…

]]> By: Ian Bennett http://www.samizdata.net/2004/08/ive-got-a-biometric-id-card/#comment-241681 Ian Bennett Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:05:23 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=6537#comment-241681 They’re “looking for customer reactions and perceptions”. Guess what sort they’ll get from the self-selected volunteers. The reporter says “No wonder as I leave, a member of staff jokes: ‘We’ll be tracking you.’ ” Newsflash, Ben; that’s not a joke!

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