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24-01-2008, 05:04 AM
Young people who want to open bank accounts will be "blackmailed" into having ID cards by 2010, leaked documents revealed last night.
Anyone aged 16 or over will be expected to obtain a card - costing up to £100 - when they first open an account or apply for a student loan to get through university.
Many of the youngsters will have to turn to their parents to foot the bill.
The revelations raised fears that the Government is planning to collect the fingerprints and other biometric details of more than two million young people entering higher education each year by stealth.
They came after it emerged that proposals to issue ID cards to anybody applying for a passport from 2010 have been put off until at least 2012. Instead, young people will now be targeted from 2010.
Tory immigration spokesman Damian Green called the plans "straightforward blackmail" to bolster "a failing policy".
He added: "The Government have seen their ID cards proposals stagger from shambles to shambles. They are clearly trying to introduce them by stealth."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510051&in_page_id=1770
Anyone aged 16 or over will be expected to obtain a card - costing up to £100 - when they first open an account or apply for a student loan to get through university.
Many of the youngsters will have to turn to their parents to foot the bill.
The revelations raised fears that the Government is planning to collect the fingerprints and other biometric details of more than two million young people entering higher education each year by stealth.
They came after it emerged that proposals to issue ID cards to anybody applying for a passport from 2010 have been put off until at least 2012. Instead, young people will now be targeted from 2010.
Tory immigration spokesman Damian Green called the plans "straightforward blackmail" to bolster "a failing policy".
He added: "The Government have seen their ID cards proposals stagger from shambles to shambles. They are clearly trying to introduce them by stealth."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510051&in_page_id=1770