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E-passport flaws highlight larger ID card risk - Clegg

1.58.19pm GMT Wed 7th Feb 2007

Commenting on the National Audit Office's report into the new electronic passport microchips, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Nick Clegg MP said:

"Once again this Government's fascination with whizz-bang technological solutions appears to be running well ahead of what technology is really able to do.

"First we discover that the information on the e-passport chips can easily be hacked into, and now we discover the chips themselves have only a limited shelf life.

Nick Clegg (photography: Alex Folkes and Dave Radcliffe)

"If the Government can't get this right, why should anyone believe they can launch an immeasurably more complex ID card database?"

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