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Electronic signatures struggling in Europe
News A reliable system of electronic signatures that work across intra-EU borders is vital to safe electronic commerce and the efficient electronic delivery of public services to businesses and citizens," she said on 17 March, 2006.
[March 20, 2006, 15:10]
Half of UK opposed to ID cards
News The widespread rollout to UK citizens, known as "Borders Phase II", is now slated to begin in 2012 — two years later than indicated in an earlier government action plan. Support for the UK's national ID card programme continues to plummet, with one...
[February 7, 2008, 8:57]
Gov't awards £400m biometric-passport contract
News The Identity and Passport Service on Thursday announced the £400m contract for the passports, which will be available to UK citizens from October 2010. The biometric passports are part of a wider government strategy which also encompasses an ID...
[June 12, 2009, 11:54]
ID cards fuel leap in consultancy costs
News The government plans to start taking the first biometric details from UK citizens for its National Identity Register scheme next year, but has delayed the mass roll-out of the scheme until 2015. The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000...
[April 14, 2008, 8:42]
US commission to recommend ban on Net gambling
News Even with an outright ban on Internet gambling, it may be difficult to prevent offshore casinos from taking bets from American citizens. The Federal government should take steps to encourage or enable foreign governments not to harbour Internet...
[June 17, 1999, 9:27]
Denial-of-Service: How big is this threat?
News The range of threats to citizens to government to businesses are much, much broader than a denial of service attack that lasts just a few hours," Vadis said. Initially, Maxus had attempted to extort $100,000 (£62,000) from the company in exchange...
[April 5, 2000, 13:20]
US firms fight Euro data protection laws
News As well as regulating the buying and selling of personal data about European citizens and forcing Web sites to tell users when data about them is collected and allow users to refuse disclosure, the Data Protection Directive also restricts the flow...
[September 30, 2002, 16:29]
Microsoft says Passport boosts privacy
News Privacy has become somewhat of a backburner issue since the terrorist attacks, as citizens have become more tolerant of surveillance plans launched in the name of national security. What if technology that could track your every move was embedded...
[April 20, 2002, 7:31]
GSMA warns against text-roaming price caps
News Mobile-operator industry body, the GSMA, has poured cold water on plans by European Commission telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding, to create a single market for mobile text services in Europe and cap the cost of sending an SMS for EU citizens...
[July 17, 2008, 9:16]
Asian Windows alternative 'would raise competition issues'
Talkback Much like every participant in any market, Governments have a responsibility to make acquisitions in a manner that is, in the long term, strategically advantageous to them and their clients (their citizens) -all taken in line with their assessment...
[September 8, 2003, 12:18]
Schneier on security
News What do you think about governments using the threat of terrorism to collect information on citizens, and the implications of that on police powers? The threat of terrorism in the UK has led to national e-card debates and biometric passport...
[November 23, 2005, 12:00]
Security experts criticise government database plans
News The second government initiative worrying security experts is this week's proposals to relax data-sharing laws that govern how civil servants access and share citizens' personal data. The database is compiled by officials at the Interior Ministry...
[January 19, 2007, 11:28]
Americans reject antiterrorism database
News The legislation, which still must be approved by the Senate, does permit TIA or a similar system to be used for data mining -- as long as the targets are not US citizens or residents. This is significant, because it ensures that American citizens...
[September 26, 2003, 9:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But the powers that be -- you know, the ones who wired up Gerry Adam's car with a device the size of a radiogram -- got a bit nervous about all their citizens chatting away too securely, and even more nervous about the citizens of other countries...
[December 12, 1999, 19:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News But the powers that be -- you know, the ones who wired up Gerry Adam's car with a device the size of a radiogram -- got a bit nervous about all their citizens chatting away too securely, and even more nervous about the citizens of other countries...
[December 12, 1999, 19:03]
Sun brews up Java ID plans
News SIM cards in phones are the most common example, but Java Card technology also is used to identify more than 4 million Defense Department employees and 24 million citizens of Taiwan. Sun Microsystems' Java Card technology, which is used to identify...
[February 16, 2004, 8:00]
Government confirms ID partner
News Only through a comprehensive understanding of the industry, its capacity and its capabilities will the Government be in a position to develop an IDs card scheme capable of delivering on its promises to citizens.
[May 25, 2004, 13:25]
They still miss the point..
Talkback I still say issue the cards in the order Tony Blair, PM, Head of the ID card department, All of the MPs and all of Whitehall, and run the test for 3 months before using any other citizens. It is not that the cards cannot be read by the devices that...
[November 17, 2006, 10:15]
ID cards scheme has cost nearly £50m
Talkback Secondly, their main purpose will be to control the masses, which generally speaking are law abiding citizens. This ID card scheme should never have started in the first place and should be binned. If they are so persistant with this they won't be...
[August 21, 2006, 17:12]
Blunkett: UK losing faith in ID cards
News The home secretary announced last year that as the National Identity Service rolls out in 2011/2012, we will be offering British citizens the choice of having an identity card, a passport, or both. MP David Blunkett, architect of the National...
[May 1, 2009, 17:08]
