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You have to be fucking joking

Posted at 8:45am on Sunday, May 29th, 2005

This just gets worse and worse…

The United States wants Britain’s proposed identity cards to have the same microchip and technology as the ones used on American documents. The aim of getting the same microchip is to ensure compatability in screening terrorist suspects. But it will also mean that information contained in the British cards can be accessed across the Atlantic.

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