UK biometric passport scheme nipped in the bud?

[Owen Lewis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk]On Behalf Of
> David_Biggins@usermgmt.com
> Sent: 20 May 2002 21:48
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: RE: UK biometric passport scheme nipped in the bud?
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Owen Lewis [mailto:oml@sysrx.uk.com]
> > 
> > Which is why more than one senior copper has 
> > hankered after a
> > national DNA databank for all persons born it (or presumably otherwise
> > entering this fair land). They might well have their wish 
> > granted too, one
> > of these days - though I'd bet that the presentation would be one of
> > medical/public health improvement, rather than plain old snoopy Plod.
> 
> HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE BILL may well lay the foundation...

Quite so.
 
> > What bureaucratic nonsense next? Barbers to be licensed and 
> > required to
> > register under the Data Protection Act?? Not to mention 
> > laundries, public
> > sanitation engineers, ladies of the night, pubs and restaurants....
> 
> More likely the Private Security Industry Bill - all of theses could be
> held to some degree to be offering some form of advice or service
> relating to the security of property or the person....

The mind quietly boggles.....

Owen