THE UK government remains hell-bent on introducing biometric identity cards. We have to wonder how many of the civil servants behind the scheme have tried using the iris-recognition technology the government introduced a year ago to make it quicker to get through passport control at UK airports and which Feedback reported on at the time (14 April 2007).
A colleague who regularly travels abroad has gamely persevered with the iris scheme. He leaves his friends waiting to show paper passports in the immigration line and joins the iris line. Then he enters a cubicle, looks into a…
