The Register reported a few days ago on the PM’s intention to allow the police to access fingerprint data on the NIR.
This morning the Sunday Times carries the news that, as with all intrusive initiatives, government fingerprint-gathering is to start with children:
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.
HT: B2fxxx
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