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More on ID cards

Posted at 12:08pm on Monday, April 26th, 2004

I’m afraid I may start to get boring about this, but bear with me… If you’re a UK citizen this directly affects you… [Thanks Doug for this one:]

“Of the 25 countries that have been most adversely affected by
terrorism since 1986, eighty per cent have national identity cards, one
third of which incorporate biometrics. This research was unable to
uncover any instance where the presence of an identity card system in
those countries was seen as a significant deterrent to terrorist
activity.”

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