That's the thing
Whatever technology they come up with, somebody will be able to fake it. And biometrics are NOT secure. You can fake out fingerprint scanners with gummi bears for fuck's sake!

As with anything like this, it's the law abiding that will suffer.

Edit: yes baz a lot of European countries have ID cards. But none of them use biometrics in the same way we're planning to, or retain nearly the same amount of data in the national database. Saying I'm against ID cards is sort of a shorthand way of saying it's the proposed database state I object to. Have a look at no2id.org and see what they're planning, it's completely different to most of the other EU ID card schemes.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Mon 9 Feb 2009, 11:08, Reply)