ID-card for you?

Identity cards might-become compulsory for all Britons, Gordon-Brown has appeared to suggest.

Anyone getting a passport from 2010 will have to get a card, and ministers had said they would be compulsory for all if Labour won the next election.

The scheme will see anyone applying for a passport having to give their biometric details for a identity-register, although it will be possible to opt-out.

Mr Brown said he believed the government would be able to persuade British citizens of the benefits of identity-cards.

Via BBC

More detailed information about ID cards

For more detailed information on the plans to introduce identity cards, visit the Identity and Passport Service's website: www.ips.gov.uk