People who visits Britain and requires visas will have to be fingerprinted starting on Monday. This was advised by the government. Immigration Minister Liam Byrne explained that those who are applying for British visa from the other 133 countries will have to have their fingerprints checked on a database. Ever since September 2006, the government has introduced this type of system and had already apprehended biometric information from about 1 million people. This system has already stopped about 500 cases of identity fraud. This is the government's new immigration strategy which helps authorities to point out who is using someones identity to work in Britain. This also proves that the government's employees are enabled to work legally in Britain. Although tourists from the U.S. and the E.U. do not require visas for visits to Britain will not be fingerprinted.
I think that system can work but there are frauds out there who are really good at hacking into the systems, even the government, and can fool this new technology. It's pretty easy to outsmart technology these days because there's always a way to do so. But I think that it's better to try something like this because identity theft is an issue that a lot of people are facing. I think that this is more secure than just having a social security number because it's not easy to copy a fingerprint (or is it?).
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