UK drops ID computer plan
p2pnet.net News:- Britain has dropped plans for a giant new computer system to run its ID card scheme.
“Instead of a single multi-billion pound system, information will be held on three existing, separate databases, says the BBC.
Home secretary John Reid said it would save cash, “but the Tories said ID cards were still a £20bn ‘white elephant’,” and all non-Europeans already in the UK will also be forced to register fingerprints or iris scans from 2008, “not just new arrivals,” Reid says, according to the story.
“Doing something sensible is not necessarily a U-turn,” The Telegraph has Reid saying.
“We have decided it is lower risk, more efficient and faster to take the infrastructure that already exists, although the data will be drawn from other sources.”
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Also See:
BBC – Giant ID computer plan scrapped, December 19, 2006
The Telegraph – Reid denies U-turn on national identity register, December 20, 2005
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