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ID cards strengthen market for data capture software
Blog With its ability to extract data from forms and documents of any type and complexity, this SDK may be a good instrument for developing vertical solutions such as those intended for processing ID cards.
[May 6, 2009, 8:34]
ID cards - compulsory or not?
Blog It's not going to be compulsory to carry around ID cards. So said Stephen Harrison, policy director at the ID & Passport Service, when asked today at the Westminster eForum on ID cards, surveillance and data protection.
[July 12, 2007, 17:38]
Trades Unions against ID Cards
Blog The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has backed up airport workers protesting against ID cards, the Financial Times reports. In a letter to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, the TUC said it had "significant and substantive" concerns about ID cards, due to be...
[July 22, 2008, 17:08]
Gov't says scrapping ID cards won't save it £3bn
Blog The Identity and Passport Service has said that getting rid of ID cards won't save the taxpayer £3bn over 10 years - as the costs are to be met by people who apply for passports and ID cards. The claim that ditching ID cards would save £3bn is...
[August 14, 2009, 17:35]
EU body slams biometric ID cards
Blog In a great article on an EU body's report on biometric ID Cards, "Biometric ID cards an insecure menace, says EU ID outfit", Reg veteran John Lettice concludes: I think we will all eventually come to realise what a misguided, unsecure, ridiculous...
[November 10, 2006, 16:41]
ID Card on track says government
Blog BTW Bruce Schneier says we shouldn't get all hot and bothered over ID cards as they are just a temporary technology before unseen biometrics take over http://adonoghue.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/uk-id-card-fuss-is-only-temporary/)
[November 6, 2008, 13:03]
India takes step on ID Card road
Blog India has taken a step towards provision of biometric ID Cards for all citizens. I have many more issues with centralised databases for ID Cards -- who will access that data, how will it be shared and combined with other data about the citizen...
[November 11, 2008, 12:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Our beloved government decided that ID cards were a good idea, and was somewhat shocked by the strength and consistency of the objections from all quarters. Not only is it an execrable piece of manipulation, the Spanish have had ID cards for many...
[April 8, 2004, 17:00]
Our essential liberties must not be compromised for an empty security dream
Blog Following the Queen's Speech today which promised to press on with ID Cards, here's an interesting comment piece in the Guardian which is talking a lot of sense: It's easy for politicians and their friends in the tabloid press to scream for ID...
[November 15, 2006, 17:02]
Pick of the week: Under the all-seeing eye
Blog Here's this week's highlights, with Vista again in the crosshairs and what a constabular street stop might look like if we all had to carry ID cards. Talkback The latest in the debate between thinkfeeldo and Andrew Meredith on the worth and...
[August 15, 2008, 18:15]
UK ID card fuss is only temporary
Blog That was the warning from security guru and BT chief security office Bruce Schneier who said that in five years or so, people won't have to worry about ID cards anymore. I know there are debates on ID cards everywhere but in a lot of ways,they are...
[October 29, 2008, 10:00]
Pulling together UK ID card privacy threads
Blog The thing that jumped out, aside from the lack of encryption on the European cards, was that Enisa, a well respected security organisation, had obviously not got any response from the UK government over what privacy guards were in UK ID Cards.
[February 9, 2009, 16:40]
Government releases more details of UK ID Card
Blog ID cards for foreign nationals will replace old-fashioned paper documents, make it easier for employers and sponsors to check entitlement to work and study, and for the UK Border Agency to verify someone's identity.
[September 25, 2008, 14:00]
HMRC data breach fiasco disks appear on eBay
Blog It really calls into doubt the competence of the government, or anyone else, to administer the ID Cards Scheme. Public trust over the data-handling capabilities of the government will rightly be shaken over the HMRC fiasco, and I hope it will get...
[November 21, 2007, 13:21]
Tuesday
Blog I fired off a whinge to my MP, the very personable Chris Smith, via www.faxyourmp.com concerning all that nonsense over the ID cards. Not only did I get a prompt reply, but it was a model of clarity -- yes, he shared my misgivings, no, he didn't...
[February 7, 2003, 17:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The government has taken to promoting ID cards with the idea that they'll save on ID theft and thus prevent fraud; it rather seems to me that the onus for that is on the financial institutions, who end up paying for it all in the end anyway.
[September 2, 2005, 19:05]
It wasn't just one MoD laptop...
Blog Meanwhile, for those of us who see some parallel here with the proposed ID cards database, back to Mr Browne: There is a relevance to the protection of data clearly in relation to the ID cards scheme [but] the ID cards scheme is underpinned by...
[January 21, 2008, 16:31]
First UK ID Card unveiled
Blog You can either look at this as a pilot which may completely fail or the first beach-head in the government's attempt to get us to all to adopt ID Cards. At 11.30 on Thurs, Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, is set to show off the first National ID Card...
[September 25, 2008, 9:30]
Government kicks UK when it's down with more ID Card news
Blog Yep - unfortunately it seems that although the country is mortgaged to the hilt, the pound is worth about the same as it was in 1978, and job losses indicate that only PoundStretcher and McDonalds will be employing anyone by the end of the...
[January 29, 2009, 16:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Figures from the Home Office released today say that 73 percent of the population are in favour of identity cards - and even if a combined ID card and passport cost £250, 63 percent think it’s a good thing and would cough up.
[October 14, 2005, 18:45]
