The UK government last month delivered to Parliament, as promised, plans for rolling out a smart card-based national identity card that could ultimately be carried by 60 million citizens and foreign nationals residing in the country. The plan calls for the ID card to be compatible with the electronic passports being rolled out in the United Kingdom and around the world, and the chip-and-PIN terminals that UK banks and merchants have deployed. That would require a card with both contact and con-tactless interfaces, to work with the payment terminals as well as contactless readers at border checkpoints.
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