At 09:15 30/10/03 +0000, David Bishop wrote:
>JW| "....would contain little, if any, information in addition to that
>already available in databases searchable (and linkable) by authorities."
>
>What about the biometric data? fingerprints and iris scans? At the
>moment they don't get your dabs until you've committed a crime.
David, as you say, 'what about it?'? The question of what sort of
information would be stored in a population database is a totally separate
(albeit very important) issue from the question of whether the database (or
ID cards) should exist.
In any event, we come back to the same question as I implicitly posed
before. What person who 'has nothing to hide' has any reason to fear the
inclusion of such biometric information in a database?
Kind Regards
John
----------------------------------------------------------------
Dr John Whittington, Voice: +44 (0) 1296 730225
Mediscience Services Fax: +44 (0) 1296 738893
Twyford Manor, Twyford, E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Buckingham MK18 4EL, UK [log in to unmask]
----------------------------------------------------------------
******************************************************
Please note that if you press the 'Reply' button your
message will go only to the sender of this message.
If you want to reply to the whole list, use your mailer's
'Reply-to-All' button to send your message automatically
to [log in to unmask]
*******************************************************
|