Grunff wrote:


You won't be the only one refusing. Retinal scan anyone?

They're unlikely to to the retinal thing. Iris is the one biometric
which comes close to meeting HomeOfficious fantasy requirements
(genuinely highly probable to be unique across a population the size of
the UK, with distance-from-one-measurement-to-another within the same
eye being hugely, statistically-reliably, smaller than
distance-from-one-measured-eye-to-another (including both eyes of one
person).

Now, linking that fact to other "facts" about the individual; shelling
out for the expense of iris readers at all the places aspects of the ID
card proposals handwave they'll be; expecting you'll be able to
'eventually' have *everyone* registered - not just the stable-address,
engaged-in-society people, but those living rough, or deliberately
avoiding contact with the authorities - those are some of the places the
fantasy starts to move rapidly and orthogonally away from the reality
the rest of us inhabit.