Brown floats plan allowing stores access to government biometric database

Published 8 August 2006

All but defeated, the U.K. biometric ID program gets new life as head of the British Treasury, Gordon Brown not only advocates the program, but wants to expand it; Brown, formerly in opposition to the biometric scheme is expected to be the next Prime Minister, chiefly because there are no other foreseeable candidates

In an attempt to rescue the U.K.’s floundering biometric ID card project, Chancellor Gordon Brown of the U.K. Treasury, has devised a plan to expand massively the biometric identification program. Under the program, Brown