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Passport chief comments on ID Card security
Blog James Hall, the new CEO of the UK Identity and Passport service, has just said in a web chat that the National Identity Register will be part of the national critical infrastructure and be "securely accredited".
[November 14, 2006, 16:31]
LifeSize Passport: HD videoconferencing for SMEs with added Skype
Blog LifeSize, which was co-founded by Malloy back in 2003, is currently talking up its new Passport product, which aims to put 'telepresence in the palm of your hand' and will ship in November. Aimed at primarily at small businesses, remote offices and...
[October 12, 2009, 16:27]
Passport needed for mobile phone purchases?
Blog There is no need for a credit check and if customers do not have a permanent base, or a passport, they are not excluded from using these services. This would supposedly cut a loophole out of the upcoming Communications Data Bill, which the Home...
[October 20, 2008, 14:16]
Do we need a biometric passport?
Blog A couple of days ago, Israel approved the bill for creation of biometric database of all Israeli citizens. Israeli government is going to start issuing biometric "fake-proof" electronic passports. Writing about the problems they will face I could...
[August 6, 2008, 16:02]
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. However, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) said on...
[August 14, 2009, 17:35]
ID cards - compulsory or not?
Blog 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. In any case, you'll automatically register for an ID card if you renew or apply for a...
[July 12, 2007, 17:38]
US immigration system: bordering on the ridiculous
Blog This is the charming system that takes your photograph and fingerprints at immigration, although I've never understood what this will tell them that my passport - and associated gigabytes of personal data provided by the airline - does not.
[February 26, 2007, 11:43]
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]
Friday
Blog You can read the details in our news story but in brief: MS was hauled over the coals by the Feds for security breaches in its Passport online ID service. The deal with the Federal Trade Commission can potentially incur a $11,000 fine for each user...
[May 9, 2003, 12:37]
UK, US, Russia, China - surveillance blackspots
Blog The goal of the passport card, an alternative to the traditional passport, is to reduce the wait at land and sea border checkpoints by using an electronic device that can simultaneously read multiple cards' radio frequency identification (RFID...
[January 2, 2008, 17:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You don't need to register with the Virgin service, just enter e-ticket number and passport details between two and 24 hours before the flight, and that's it. I've still got the flight itself and the US welcoming committee to go -- one...
[September 3, 2004, 18:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Also, the photograph required is just like a passport photo, but slightly bigger -- you can't use the normal photo booths (and the machine at the embassy is always broken). Only I haven't -- one more piece of delight is that you have to provide...
[September 12, 2003, 17:00]
Logitech buys LifeSize for $405m
Blog A few weeks ago I met with Craig Malloy, co-founder and CEO of high-definition videoconferencing specialist LifeSize Communications, as the company was introducing its Skype-compatible Passport product.
[November 11, 2009, 10:53]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog I hand him my passport, helpfully held open at the visa page. Saturday 4/3/2006 It's that wonderful moment, sixteen hours after leaving my Holloway home, when I finally get to the front of the immigration queue in San Francisco airport.
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
Vodafone, roaming and the €60 beer
Blog Imagine trying to buy a three euro beer in Paris, only to have your passport checked and told that it was going to cost you sixty euro. The world of European mobile communications was not rocked to its very foundations this week, as 3 announced a...
[June 30, 2009, 16:38]
Building Connections in Emergency Communications
Blog Using a satellite based internet connection we were able to send the information and a photo of the girl to Tehran to get a new passport issued in her name. By Monique Lanne-Petit, director and co-founder of Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF)
[September 17, 2008, 9:44]
Huawei, the lads...
Blog Of the business of getting a Chinese journalist visa when you're at the other end of the country from the embassy, i shall say nothing, except that my passport finally turned up in the bottom of a packing crate in an empty office at the last...
[November 18, 2007, 14:56]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There is one cunning plan to counter this, promoted by one of our readers in Talkback - when they do break your door down and haul you off to the airport, be sure to leave your passport at home. Friday 12/5/2006
[May 12, 2006, 18:00]
More madness from north of the border
Blog The trail blazer for the DIVA approach was a three year Memorandum of Understanding signed with Microsoft in 2004, which has enabled a publicly shared plan for incorporating elements of Microsoft courseware, resources and certifications into SQA...
[June 19, 2007, 18:06]
Pulling together UK ID card privacy threads
Blog There's nothing to sink your teeth into," said Booth, who added that he had talked to a person who was architecting the system, and was told essentially that the government was "going to implement a bunch of international standards exemplified by...
[February 9, 2009, 16:40]
