Comments on: Fantasies of control http://bowblog.com/2004/05/27/fantasies-of-control/ Thu, 17 May 2012 13:19:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Richard http://bowblog.com/2004/05/27/fantasies-of-control/comment-page-1/#comment-648 Richard Fri, 28 May 2004 21:15:04 +0000 http://bowblog.com/?p=573#comment-648 Blunkett couldn't care less about the I.D. cards; it's the biometric database behind them that he's really after. That's why it won't be compulsory to carry the cards... Who needs a card when you've got an iris? If Blunkett were honest about this, he could forego the cost of the cards altogether. But the cards will no doubt help pay for the database. Clever or what? Blunkett couldn’t care less about the I.D. cards; it’s the biometric database behind them that he’s really after. That’s why it won’t be compulsory to carry the cards… Who needs a card when you’ve got an iris?

If Blunkett were honest about this, he could forego the cost of the cards altogether. But the cards will no doubt help pay for the database. Clever or what?

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