Home Secretary Alan Johnson confirmed for Parliament this week that among the data included in the country's National Identification Registry are National Insurance numbers as well as challenge questions used to speed the customer service process, ZDNet reports. The revelation is likely to reinvigorate critics of the program who maintain a mandatory national identification card is a threat to personal privacy. Currently the program is voluntary for UK residents and mandatory for non-resident skilled workers. Biometric data is also collected for the registry.
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