UK: One step closer to the Mark

UK sets plans in motion to roll out biometric national identity cards for citizens and foreign nationals to begin in 2008.

Physical details of all residents to be held on ID database
HAMISH MACDONELL SCOTTISH POLITICAL EDITOR

"EVERYBODY living in the United Kingdom, including foreigners, will be required to have their biometric details recorded under the government's identity card scheme, it emerged yesterday. John Reid, the Home Secretary, announced that all UK residents, whether or not they were British citizens, would be forced to have their irises scanned and their fingerprints taken for the national database".

UK's Timetable for National Identity Card