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ID Cards
British national identity card
Enabling legislation for the British national identity card was passed under the Identity Cards Act 2006.
The cards will have a lesser role than the database they are linked to, which is known as the National Identity Register (NIR).
The Act specifies fifty categories of information that the NIR can hold on each citizen, including up to 10 fingerprints, digitised facial scan and iris scan, current and past UK and overseas places of residence of all residents of the UK throughout their lives and indices to other Government databases — which would allow them to be connected.
The legislation also says that any further information can be added.
The legislation further says that those renewing or applying for passports must be entered on to the NIR.
It is expected that this will happen soon after the UK Passport Service, which has now been renamed the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), start interviewing passport applicants to verify their identity.
The cards will have a lesser role than the database they are linked to, which is known as the National Identity Register (NIR).
The Act specifies fifty categories of information that the NIR can hold on each citizen, including up to 10 fingerprints, digitised facial scan and iris scan, current and past UK and overseas places of residence of all residents of the UK throughout their lives and indices to other Government databases — which would allow them to be connected.
The legislation also says that any further information can be added.
The legislation further says that those renewing or applying for passports must be entered on to the NIR.
It is expected that this will happen soon after the UK Passport Service, which has now been renamed the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), start interviewing passport applicants to verify their identity.
1 comment:
Why does your ID card poll give three options that are pretty much the same? It's not much of a poll then.
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