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 Jerome rated 19 months ago - Children of 11 to be fingerprinted
From the page: "CHILDREN aged 11 to 16 are to have their fingerprints taken and stored on a secret database, internal Whitehall documents reveal.
The leaked Home Office plans show that the mass fingerprinting will start in 2010, with a batch of 295,000 y...
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- Jerome rated 19 months ago
- Children of 11 to be fingerprinted
From the page: "CHILDREN aged 11 to 16 are to have their fingerprints taken and stored on a secret database, internal Whitehall documents reveal.
The leaked Home Office plans show that the mass fingerprinting will start in 2010, with a batch of 295,000 youngsters who apply for passports.
The Home Office expects 545,000 children aged 11 and over to have their prints taken in 2011, with the figure settling at an annual 495,000 from 2014. Their fingerprints will be held on a database also used by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to store the fingerprints of hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers. [...]
The prime minister has hailed the ID cards scheme as the centrepiece of efforts to combat terrorism and illegal immigration, as well as identity theft and benefit fraud. But opponents dismiss it as a "Big Brother" scheme that is too expensive, poorly planned and unlikely to function efficiently."
- nik1111111111 rated 19 months ago
- Children of 11 to be fingerprinted
Thanks laukev7
- Laukev7 rated 19 months ago
- From the page: "CHILDREN aged 11 to 16 are to have their fingerprints taken and stored on a secret database, internal Whitehall documents reveal.
The leaked Home Office plans show that the mass fingerprinting will start in 2010, with a batch of 295,000 youngsters who apply for passports."
- zenetik rated 19 months ago
- A leaked government document reveals that the British government is planning mandatory fingerprinting of children between the ages of 11 and 16 beginning in 2011. No longer will it be necessary to commit a crime to be fingerprinted; merely being a citizen (actually, I think it goes further than just citizens) will be enough. Who knows? By 2011, the technology may be advanced enough that it'll just be easier to RFID chip everyone instead of fingerprints.
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