The Home Office says the cards – which include an electronic chip holding fingerprints and a digital facial image –  will guard against identity fraud, illegal workers, organised crime and terrorism.内政部说，卡-其中包括一个电子芯片举行指纹和面部数码图像-将防范身份欺诈，非法劳工，有组织犯罪和恐怖主义。

They fear the scheme could lead to spying on ordinary citizens and the subsequent ethical issues this raises.他们担心该计划可能导致从事间谍活动的普通公民和随后的伦理问题，这引起了。

Steve Graham, professor of geography at Durham University and a member of the UK Surveillance Studies Network, said: “The most disturbing thing about the UK ID cards scheme is the cards’ potential, through their embedded radio frequency chips, to be used as a means of passively tracking people’s whereabouts continuously and covertly.”史蒂夫格雷厄姆，地理学教授在达勒姆大学和一名英国监测研究网络，说： “最令人不安的事英国的ID卡计划卡的潜力，通过其嵌入式射频芯片，将用作手段被动跟踪人的下落，并暗地里不断。 “

Dr Francisco Klauser, an expert in security politics at Durham, added: “It raises a series of important issues not only in terms of privacy and individual liberties, but also in view of its potential for discrimination between different populations through modes of classification that may include ethnicity and nationality, for example.”旧金山Klauser博士专家，在安全政治上达勒姆补充说： “它提出了一系列重要的问题，不仅在个人隐私和个人自由，而且还鉴于其潜在的歧视不同人群之间通过分类方式，可能包括种族和国籍，例如“ 。

Dr Matthew Kearnes, from the university’s Institute of Hazard and Risk, has researched the implications of new technologies on society.马修Kearnes博士，从大学研究所的危害与风险，也影响研究的新技术对社会的影响。

He said: “Given the Government’s recent track record – the NHS data base scandals and concerns about electronic wheelie-bin monitoring – this technological approach is likely to exacerbate existing public concerns.”他说： “由于政府最近的记录-羟基琥珀数据的基础丑闻和关注电子w heelie斌监测-这种技术的做法有可能加剧现有的公共问题。”

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