Biometrics and surveillance will make life difficult for Immigrants

IRR – Biometrics and surveillance are set to make life virtually impossible for those without legal status here.

On 6 January 2010, skilled workers from outside the EU became the latest group to need a biometric identity card in order to extend their stay in the UK. This involves attending one of the dozen or so ‘biometric enrolment centres’ in the UK to have a digital photograph and ten digital finger scans taken. By 2011, the government aims that all foreign nationals over the age of 6, legally in the UK for more than six months, possess an identity card with digital photograph and fingerprints on it, together with details of the person’s conditions of stay, and the biometric ID card will be the official passport to employment and to services such as health, education and welfare benefits.

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