Shops may take ID card biometrics

[dipsydoodle]

Supermarkets could be asked to take people's fingerprints as part of the government's identity card scheme.

The Home Office is talking to retailers and the Post Office about setting up booths to gather biometric data.

It comes as Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced ID cards would be issued to airside workers at Manchester and London City airport from late 2009.

The Home Office denied the 18-month trial was a retreat on plans to issue all 200,000 airside workers with cards.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7712275.stm

[ikri]

1. There's a surprise

Those of us against ID cards have been arguing this since the start.

The moment they realise they have the ability to collect any and all information about you, they will.

Liberty? Who needs it.