Posted by Tina
LONDON – Britain unveiled its new biometric identity card on Thursday which the government says will be vital in fighting illegal immigration and terrorism, while critics call it an expensive attack on civil liberties. The controversial multi-billion pound scheme, which involves one of the world’s most ambitious biometric projects, will see ID cards used in Britain for the first time since they were abolished after World War Two. – Reuters
Desperate times, desperate measures? Notice the practice was suspended by this free country after the war was won.