Strange that I didn't hear any of this on the mainstream news items.. oh! yes! too much distraction regards the PM and resignations, The Great Financial Heist in the history of Fiat currencies and such... so here we go, another media circus and another day to bury bad news.
Taken from the article:
Identity cards could be handed out to children as young as 14, a home office minister has suggested.
The first ID cards are due to be offered to 16 and 17-year-olds from 2010 as part of a plan to introduce the controversial scheme in stages.
But Meg Hillier said the age range was still "up for grabs" and could be lowered "if they prove popular".
So, we have our nations kids, who are playing spy games at school, who are vaccinated against cervical cancer while being having their fingerprints taken so they will be able to access the library or food. They are keeping diaries that their parents are not allowed to see, whilst being monitored for any un-PC comments, now are being groomed to accept that ID Cards and Biometrics are a done deal and are, in fact rather cool.
She said she had been "struck" by a visit to Hungary, where 14-year-olds routinely carried ID cards - and she pointed out that six-year-olds were already fingerprinted for visas.
Hungary is a country with an interesting history, especially when using it as a system model to compare and contrast our own.
She also hit back at suggestions by anti-ID card campaigners that the scheme might not go ahead.
"it is full steam ahead," she told the meeting, "in fact the prime minister wanted me to do it quicker than it was possible."
Phil Booth of No2ID said Ms Hiller was "delusional" if she thought ID cards could not be scrapped by an incoming Conservative government.
"The officials themselves, since 2006 have designed the contract on the basis that the entire scheme could be canned at the next election."
Mr Booth, who had been due to speak at the fringe meeting but was unable to gain entry to the conference centre because of a problem with his pass application, also criticised the plan to give the cards to younger children.
He said ID cards legislation specified a minimum age of 16 and he said it was wrong for young people to be tied into a giant database "for the rest of their lives".
On his conference pass problems, he said: "If this is how they are organising their ID for their own party conference, how the heck are they going to organise ID cards for 50 million people?"LOL not so much as a problem with his pass as a gag.
BBC NEWS | Politics | Younger teens 'to get ID cards'
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