Jacqui Smith wants Post Offices and high street shops to take ID card fingerprints

Jacqui Smith wants Post Offices and high street shops to take ID card fingerprints:

"James Slack

UK Daily Mail
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Members of the public will be expected to have their fingerprints taken at the Post Office or in high street shops and pharmacies when they sign up for a controversial ID card or passport.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith will today announce she wants retailers to record an applicant’s most sensitive biometric details, before passing them on to the Government.

She says it will offer a ‘local, convenient recording service’ which will help keep the ID cards project costs under control.

However, papers to be released by the Home Office today will reveal the bill for issuing ID cards and passports over the next ten years is now £4.945billion for UK citizens and £379million for foreign nationals."