Germany has announced that the wave of new migrants entering the country will receive ID cards linked to a centralised system storing fingerprints.It has been confirmed that the cards will hold information on refugees' date and place of birth, nationality and gender, as well as a photo and details on height and eye colour.While it is unclear if the cards will be biometric, registration centres will also take fingerprints.”This way we can try and better detect people who are trying to disguise their identity,” Interior Minister Thomas De Maiziere said in a statement.The government hopes to start handing the cards out by mid February, once the ID cards have been approved by parliament, with the aim of fully introducing them by next year.Refugees will need an ID card if they want to receive benefits and apply for asylum, de Maiziere said.This week, Crossmatch revealed that its Guardian fingerprint scanner is being used by the Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF) (the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees) to biometrically enrol thousands of refugees and migrants entering the country.

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