http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3731465.stm
there are links to more accounts of it including the text of the Law SOciety statement (which was very definite and not
in favour) at http://www.privacyinternational.org/
I think it is undeniable that there are potential useful applications of a _working_ ID system, but the sort of applications
of use to the citizen depend on the card identifying your location every hundred metres or so, not twice in your lifetime
whcih is the average experience of being stopped by the Police, for middle-class white people.
Think Gattacca, or THis Perfect Day.
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