Italy plans to extend ID scheme http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7510790.stm
Italy's government has sought to defuse a row over its move to fingerprint Roma people by proposing that everyone living in Italy is fingerprinted.
Under the plan, fingerprints would feature from 2010 on the identity cards Italian citizens and residents carry. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7510790.stm