UK keeps mandatory ID cards for foreigners
Britain's keeping mandatory, RFID-enabled biometric ID cards that can be read without your knowledge or permission for immigrants like me:Foreign nationals from outside the European Economic Area would still be required to have ID cards with 50,000 already issued, he said.Britain drops plans to make ID cards compulsory (Thanks, Dickon!)The Conservatives said the decision was a retreat.
"They have spent millions on the scheme so far -- the Home Secretary thinks it has been a waste and wants to scrap it, but the prime minister won't let him," said the party's home affairs spokesman Chris Grayling.
"So we end up with an absurd fudge instead."
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