News: More Details on ID Card Databases - Ministers Seeking Advice from Industry on Security

The Register is reporting this morning that the Identity minister has announced that UK ID Card scheme is to have 3 different databases: "There is the one that holds the fingerprints and facial image, the biometric data, and then the other information which is broadly what is on your passport already and the third bit is the one that links the two,"

The announcement was made at a meeting organised by the Social Market Foundation. Meg Hillier, the minister, also revealed that her department is still researching how best to to make remote use of ID Cards work.

An example of an ID card reader, visually like a larger version of a card reader used by retailers, was available at the conference. Hillier said that the government "needed to do more work on this" and was keen to hear the views of industry about how this will work, particularly about security.