UK Gov "Forgot" To Buy Readers For Its Biometric ID Cards

Written by
Desire Athow

07 February, 2009

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In reply to a request by Techradar for more information, a spokesperson for the Home Office said that "this is all part of an "incremental rollout" of the ID scheme, which has already been detailed in the Identity Cards Act". (ed: Apparently giving out cards first instead of readers rather than the other way round makes more sense).

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