Fixing the integrity of passport could undermine privacy.
I made a mistake in my blog “Uncomfortable questions over biometric ID Cards and national security” posted on the 18th Feb. A couple of days after I had posted the text, the BBC carried reports that the Foreign Secretary had said that the new UK biometric passports were not used by those who assassinated a Hamas official in Dubai. I had written the blog assuming the passports were the biometric ones, so obviously my comments about how the biometric details




