UK Bill Makes ID Cards Mandatory
Jeremy Kirk writes on InfoWorld:
The U.K. government's plan for a national ID card survived another legislative round on Monday, with House of Commons lawmakers amending the bill to make an ID card mandatory when people apply for a new passport.
Monday's amendment was welcomed by the government, which has pushed for a mandatory ID card to cut down on long-standing problems of public benefits and banking fraud. A further law will have to be passed to make the mandatory measure stick, however.
Another amendment passed Monday requires new passport applicants to be entered in the national ID card register. Members of Parliament debated whether the two systems -- one for biometric passports and the other for national ID cards, which could also contain biometric data -- should coexist given the similar information that will be stored in both.
posted by Fergie @ 2/14/2006 06:47:00 AM
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