Tony Blair relaunched the government's controversial identity card bill last week, claiming biometric cards are needed to tackle the growing problem of identity fraud.
The prime minister said the ID cards would be phased in from 2008 before being made compulsory. But experts again raised doubts about the effectiveness of a scheme expected to cost £585m a year to ...
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