Re: (slightly off-topic) ID cards

Jim Peters <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.law.eucd.ukcdr
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> If you've written to your MP to express an opinion or ask
> about ID cards, I would be most grateful if you would send
> me (and not the list) a brief note telling me the
> name/constituency of your MP and their general position on
> the ID cards policy. I will summarise for those who are
> interested.

Did you see that BBC News article in which an MP has tried the iris
recognition and had loads of problems, and they are reckoning on 4% or
7% failure rates?  See here:

  "Long lashes thwart ID scan trial"
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3693375.stm

Jim

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