Sir James Crosby offers advice to UK's identity card scheme

Biometric Technology Today · 2008

The long-awaited publication of Sir James Crosby report into the establishment of a universal identity assurance system has come up with a list of 10 recommendations, many of which fly in the face of the current ID card proposals being tabled by the UK Government. In particular Crosby recommends that any ID card should be provided for free, it should be operated independently of government and full biometric images should not be kept.

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