Blunkett Wants UK Government To Can ID Card Project

In what could be seen as an ironical case, former Home Secretary David Blunkett said that the UK government should call off plans to introduce identity cards for all, eight years after he first brought in the idea.  Addressing the security conference Infosec 2009 in London, Mr. Blunkett said the ambitious identity card scheme should be scrapped, instead, the government should go for introducing mandatory biometric passports. He further asserted that he has already...