ID cards and biometrics: UK govt publicity

[Adrian Midgley]

Peter Tomlinson wrote:

> Katherine Courtney, the programme's director, and Ian Watmore, the 
> government's chief information officer, were updating journalists 
> about how the card will be introduced, parliament willing. They 
> presented the process as a near-seamless transmission from current 
> efforts to improve passport security and to tidy up government 
> systems. There will be no big bang, Watmore stressed."

Charlie Stross, whom I suspect of having a clue, wrote about after it is 
introduced, and how

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2006/05/17#id-card-3