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Toddlers used in trial of identity biometrics - Computer Weekly 16/5/06
A Home Office department is fingerprinting under-fives, and may include babies, in a biometrics ID scheme. The trial ends the departments technological taboo on enrolling very young children in identity checks. Details of the scheme emerged after the Home Office released an internal report under the Freedom of Information Act. The UK could be one of the first countries to fingerprint under-fives and possibly the first. When Malaysian police last year proposed fingerprinting of babies there were strong protests from civil liberties groups in the country.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/05/16/215954/Toddlers+used+in+trial+of+identity+biometrics.htm
A Home Office department is fingerprinting under-fives, and may include babies, in a biometrics ID scheme. The trial ends the departments technological taboo on enrolling very young children in identity checks. Details of the scheme emerged after the Home Office released an internal report under the Freedom of Information Act. The UK could be one of the first countries to fingerprint under-fives and possibly the first. When Malaysian police last year proposed fingerprinting of babies there were strong protests from civil liberties groups in the country.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/05/16/215954/Toddlers+used+in+trial+of+identity+biometrics.htm
