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Frankfurt starts scanning flyers' irises
News The iris systems -- seven of which have been installed at the airport -- will then identify the passenger's iris and match that information with the passport data captured by a scanner. A test of an iris-scanning system is set to begin on Saturday...
[February 16, 2004, 9:15]
Public should benefit from e-government savings
News If implemented, this could mean it would be significantly cheaper to buy a driving licence or get a new passport by using a Web-based service, instead of sending an application by post or by visiting a post office, for example.
[April 5, 2002, 11:57]
Home Office cuts estimated cost of ID-cards scheme
News In May, Bill Crothers, executive director of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), said that the three main deals would each cost around £500m. The home secretary has said the three main contracts establishing the National Identity Scheme will...
[November 25, 2008, 10:20]
ID card scheme 'to cost £5.4bn'
News From 2010, anyone applying for or replacing a passport must also receive an ID card, although parliament will have to pass another law to make them compulsary for all citizens. The UK's identity card scheme will cost £5.4bn to set up and run over...
[October 9, 2006, 17:25]
Take up rate
Talkback The only bit that should be continued is for foreign born residents without British citizenship to either have a valid national passport or a UK issued hi-tec ID document. With an estimated population of 60 million it will take an awful long time...
[December 22, 2008, 7:08]
Foreign Office reports five data breaches since 2007
News In December, information on 36 people, including passport numbers, financial and employment details, was lost on paper, again outside government offices. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has reported five significant data breaches to the...
[August 4, 2008, 8:59]
Sun releases open-source Liberty tool
News The Liberty Alliance Project is an effort to establish a universal online authentication system that serves as an alternative to Microsoft's proprietary Passport online ID system. Sun Microsystems on Wednesday unveiled a new open-source software...
[September 19, 2002, 13:49]
Leaked emails predict ID card failure
Talkback The result would see us as a nation carrying pointless ID Cards, of no more value than carrying a passport. Whatever form the ID cards take - if they ever do appear nationally - there is nothing more certain than the fact they will be counterfeited...
[August 31, 2006, 19:26]
MS unveils new Windows CE .Net
News At the time, Microsoft added support for a couple of services, such as instant messaging and Passport authentication. Microsoft is putting a little more .Net into its Windows CE .Net. The software giant on Tuesday announced a new version of its...
[July 31, 2002, 8:03]
Re: Nothing to hide
Talkback The government have just passed a new law that means you are required on pain of a £1000 fine to make a copy of all your keys (house, car, garage, office) and take them along with your birth certificate and passport to the nearest cop shop...
[February 7, 2008, 13:20]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
News Up until June 2003, Microsoft itself thought the system safe enough to use in Passport, a secure repository designed to hold users' personal information, including their credit card numbers. A critical security patch released this week that fixes...
[February 4, 2004, 13:05]
Roaming rip-off puts travellers off phoning home
News UK phone users are even more conscious of roaming, with 10 percent not switching their phones on and 13 percent not packing their phone with their passport to save money. The high cost of roaming is putting Europeans off using their mobiles abroad...
[November 8, 2006, 10:19]
IBM wins UK Border Agency deal
News IBM beat EDS and Fujitsu to the deal, which has been signed within the end-2008 schedule given by the Identity and Passport Service's executive director Bill Crothers in May. The UK Border Agency has awarded a £3m contract to IBM to set up its...
[December 16, 2008, 8:34]
Glitch locks AOL users out of Microsoft sites
News Customers told CNET News.com that they were unable to access news site MSNBC, authentication service Passport and small business information site bCentral. A glitch is preventing a significant number AOL Time Warner's Road Runner customers from...
[September 3, 2003, 16:05]
Gov't announces airport ID-card trials
News James Hall, chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service, said: "Confirming our plans for identity cards for airside workers is a major step in delivering the National Identity Scheme. The Home Office has announced the first trials of ID...
[November 5, 2008, 17:17]
T-Mobile and Vodafone slash roaming charges
News This follows on from the introduction last year of their Passport service, which allows customers to use their phones abroad at domestic rates, provided they pay a connection fee of 75p per call. Mobile phone network operators Vodafone and T-Mobile...
[May 8, 2006, 12:55]
Survey: Bosses ignore IT and networks
News Broadband networks are not a passport to maximising business efficiency without the regular input and interaction of both IT and non-IT senior management," said Andrew Peters, chief executive of Telefonica UK.
[May 19, 2004, 8:35]
Home Office has received over 1,000 ID card requests
News The announcement follows Identity and Passport Service (IPS) research that found 55 percent of the public "agreed with ID cards" in November 2008, down from 60 percent in August. More than 1,000 messages asking for ID cards have flooded into the...
[December 23, 2008, 7:27]
Microsoft offers taste test of 'Talisker'
News The commercial version of Talisker, expected at the end of the year, will also add support for several .Net services from Microsoft, including instant messaging and Passport authentication service. Microsoft plans to introduce on Tuesday the first...
[April 10, 2001, 10:38]
10,000 volunteers to trial ID cards
News The trial will last from January to June 2004 and will be run by the UK Passport Service in conjunction with the DVLA and the Home Office. The government has announced the launch of a trial to pave the way for its compulsory ID card scheme.
[December 5, 2003, 14:35]
