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[privacy] ID cards 'will allow crime fingerprint checks'
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:51:55 -0500
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/20/nidcards20.x ml ID cards 'will allow crime fingerprint checks' By George Jones, Political Editor Last Updated: 2:13am GMT 20/02/2007 People who get identity cards will have their fingerprints checked against those found at the scene of nearly a million unsolved crimes, Tony Blair said last night. Responding to a petition on the No 10 Downing Street website calling for the proposed introduction of ID cards to be scrapped, Mr Blair said the biometric recognition details, such as fingerprints, would be entered on a new National Identity Register. In an email to the 28,000 people who signed the online petition, Mr Blair said the register would help police bring those guilty of serious crimes to justice. "They will be able, for example, to compare the fingerprints found at the scene of some 900,000 unsolved crimes against the information held on the register." The Government is already building up a national DNA register by authorising the police to take saliva swabs from anyone who is arrested even if they are not charged as well as those convicted of serious criminal offences. Mr Blair's email appears to contradict an assurance given by Tony McNulty, a Home Office Minister, when the legislation was going through the Commons in 2005. Mr McNulty said there were safeguards against state agencies "for want of a better phrase, going fishing in the database". The Conservatives are committed to scrapping the ID card scheme, which they claim will cost at least £5 billion. _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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