'Children as young as 11 are to have their fingerprints taken and stored on a secret government database, it was claimed last night.
'The Home Office is understood to be planning to take as many as half-a-million prints from children aged 11 to 16 from 2010 onwards.
'The proposals are part of wider moves to introduce ID cards under which everyone over 16 will have to have their fingerprints, eye and facial details taken down when they apply for a new passport.' (Scotsman article).
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