Original sentence: Enabling legislation for the British national identity card was passed under the Identity Cards Act 2006.It is expected that this will happen soon after the newly named Identity and Passport Service start interviewing passport applicants.Opponents claim that political opposition could be highlighted through searching the data accumulated, and blackmailed through denial of public services & licences to travel.The Act specifies fifty categories of information that the NIR can hold on each citizen , including up to 10 fingerprints, digitised facial scan and iris scan, current and past UK and overseas places of residence of all residents of the UK throughout their lives and indexes to other Government databases - which allows them to be connected.The Government have explained little about how it will work in practice and the scheme has yet to be put to tender.The legislation also says that any further information can be added.The legislation also says that those renewing or applying for passports must be entered on to the NIR.The scheme is controversial because the Act allows it to expand far beyond the Government's stated intentions
Edited sentence: Enabling legislation for the controversial British national identity card was passed under the Identity Cards Act 2006.It is expected that this will happen once the newly named Identity and Passport Service start interviewing applicants.Opponents claim that political opposition could be highlighted through searching the data accumulated and blackmailed through denial of public services & licences to travel.The legislation says that those renewing or applying for passports must be entered on to the NIR.The legislation specifies that the NIR will hold at least fifty fields of information on each citizen , including up to 10 fingerprints, digitised facial scan and iris scan, current and past UK and overseas places of residence of all residents of the UK throughout their lives and indexes to other Government databases.This means both that little is known about the how the scheme would work and that its scope can expand beyond the Government's stated function without further votes in Parliament