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EU: The European Parliament Civil Liberties Committee votes in favour of fingerprinting children (from age 12) for EU passports
01 October 2008
The plenary session of the EP now has to vote on the issue:
Letter from Sarah Ludford MEP to the rapporteur (pdf),
BIODEV II: Children Fingerprinting Intermediary report to the European Commission (pdf)
Biometrics of Juveniles (Sagem, pdf)
and
UK test figures (pdf).
Background:
Civil Liberties Committee votes for finger-printing children from the age of 12 and above for EU passports (EP press release) and Google
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