From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Phil Payne"  wrote in
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>> It admitted 10,000 passports were wrongly given in the past year, ...
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> 10,000 that it knows about.
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So they screw up the passports and use that as justification for mandatory
identity cards?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/20/passport_fraud/
Rough fraud figures published by the Identity and Passport Service today
have become the government's latest justification for its identity card
plans.

The Home Office estimated that 10,000 fraudulent passport applications were
approved in the 11 months to October 2006. But its figures were only
partial and the Home Office refused to publish more details.

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