So ID Cards don't work...They will be compulsory by 2010 but THEY DON'T WORK...

The solution?

They are going to need every fingerprint that you possess, two iris scans and a retinal scan...Although the eye scans are the tricky bit and...THEY DON'T WORK...Are you getting this?!??!

I wonder how long it will be before they start announcing that the ID Card is too flawed a project as THEY DON'T WORK and the easiest thing to do will be to have a tiny little chip inserted into the back of your hand?

Nobody could steal it...Nobody could swipe it and make a copy...No retinal scan or iris scan is required and as for that messy fingerprinting business...Well who wants that anyway?!??!

Apparently people with brown eyes give the eye scans the most difficulty...Sounds like Hitler was onto something with his Aryan race with blue-eyes deal...What else did he do? Oh, that's right, he persecuted the foreigners, the elderly and the disabled. This is starting to get a little scary huh?!??!

The third reading of this bill goes before the house of commons on Tuesday. You have less than 36 hours to e-mail, telephone or meet with your local MP and beg them to vote no to this legislation.

Not a week, a month or a year...36 hours...

This isn't Hollywood and the clock won't stop at 1 second because of a single hero...It will only stop if we all make sure that we are ALL doing everything that we can to derail this bill.

I have a piece of software that will tell me, from your postcode, who your local MP actually is, what their e-mail address, telephone number and constituency office address is...

I wonder how many of you will e-mail us at Start The Revolution to ask us to use it?

Sunday 17th October 2005 | Press Association

The technology which would underpin a national identity card scheme suffers from "difficulties" at this stage, a Government minister has acknowledged.

Home Office minister Tony McNulty conceded that people might be identified inaccurately on the basis of a test against any one of the biometric checks which the cards will employ. That was why the system would employ 13 biometric features in all.

Mr McNulty even suggested that people with brown eyes could experience difficulties. Interviewed on the World this Weekend on BBC Radio 4, Mr McNulty was asked about a newspaper report suggesting that one in 1,000 people could be identified incorrectly by the hi-tech scans.

He responded: "Inaccurately identified on one of the biometrics ... If there are difficulties with the facial biometric, there are 12 other biometrics (two iris checks and 10 finger and thumb prints)."

Mr McNulty conceded: "There are difficulties with the technology, not least in terms of people who have difficulties with their eyes anyway, not least with people with brown eyes rather than other coloured eyes, and all those are being factored into the equation.

"None of these problems are new, but increasingly as biometrics are more and more used...we think the technology can only get better and better and better."

The Government is planning to use face, iris and fingerprint scans to identify people on ID cards. But studies have found that being scanned in the wrong type of light or in shadow could lead to an inaccurate identification.

The Independent on Sunday reported that internal reports for the Government warned that manual labourers whose fingerprints are worn or nicked could find their fingerprints are not recognised. Men who go bald risk being identified as someone else. Pianists, guitarists and typists - whose fingerprints can be worn down - could also face inaccurate readings.

The paper said that Government trials had also demonstrated that the biometrics of black, elderly and disabled people have a higher chance of being incorrectly matched.

The Commons will vote on whether to give the Identity Cards Bill its Third Reading on Tuesday, and some Labour MP's are expected to oppose the measure. Asked whether he was expecting a significant rebellion, Mr McNulty said. "I have no idea. We are very, very clear though that the arguments have been made, they have shifted away from civil liberties to practicalities and costs and those are the issues we must address as the thing unfolds."