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Government calls on Experian data to spot fraud

...from sources as diverse as the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, the Passport Office, credit card companies and mobile phone contracts. This story originally appeared... Read more

7 December, 2011 by Mark Say

IT glitch hits passport system

Thousands of people have been left without their passports, after an IT system installed by Siemens suffered problems Read more

12 July, 2006 by Kable

Government hits back at IT blunders report

Labour hands off blame for IT mess to Conservatives, claiming government has learned from mistakes Read more

6 January, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

End to biometric passport scheme would 'axe jobs'

...Blackman-Woods has said jobs could also be at risk at a passport office in the city if the Lib Dems won. She has called... Read more

26 April, 2010 by Kable
The issues making IT a political hot potato

The issues making IT a political hot potato

...threats from criminals — and even from themselves. They created ID cards, the Passport Office database, the Department for Work and Pensions database, the national children... Read more

27 August, 2009 by Mark Taylor

Fitting passports with biometric data

...this year, with possible real-world implementation by next year. The UK Passport Office recently announced that it is looking for volunteers to help test... Read more

18 August, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

Election 2001: Lib Dems say Labour's IT strategy is not working

Not pushing BT hard enough over local loop unbundling is one failure, claim the Liberal Democrats, as is not providing a lead in the tricky issue of mobile phone masts Read more

24 May, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

Biometrics: Your questions answered

Iris scanning and fingerprinting - your concerns put to the experts... Read more

20 August, 2004 by Will Sturgeon

Time to marry network and physical security

They are one and the same - security is security is security… Read more

28 April, 2004 by Will Sturgeon

Biometric ID: 'Will work, will happen and will be popular'

...trials… The company behind the biometric technology being used by the UK passport office says biometric IDs will happen - and they will happen with the... Read more

28 April, 2004 by Will Sturgeon

UK passports to go biometric

...appear on all UK passports within the following four years, the UK Passport Office chief has stated. Passports will have a microchip embedded into them... Read more

21 February, 2002 by Heather McLean

US to digitise travel documents

...the project are ridiculous. Trying to manage the picture transfer from each passport office to a central database would be horrendous, he said Read more

3 January, 2002 by Heather McLean

Public sector IT, e-tail fulfilment, Randombet.com

...booking system. However, the immigration system disaster would be caught and the Passport Office system would have been too. The Government seems to be taking... Read more

12 March, 2001 by Bloor Research

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