Prime Minister Andrew Holness deserves credit for having learnt from his Governments previous botched effort to establish a national identification system (NIDS), which the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional. The Government has scaled back its ambitions and shelved its threat to deprive citizens of state benefits for them to fall in line. The new bill excludes some of the biographical and biometric information that was initially proposed in the struck-down law such as person’s race, religion, palm prints, toe prints, retina scans, and eye colour.
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