Asylum seekers get UK's first biometric ID cards
News Asylum seekers in Croydon have become the first people in Britain to be issued with high-tech biometric cards by the Home Office. By introducing the card, the government is at the forefront of making the most of up-to-date technology to combat...
[February 4, 2002, 17:26]
Biometrics to catch 'fake' asylum seekers
News The government is set to use digital images and facial recognition technology when screening asylum seekers in the UK in an attempt to further clamp down on fraudulent applications. The technology will support the Europe-wide £4.3m Eurodac...
[May 23, 2003, 15:52]
UK to share fingerprints with Canada, Australia
News The agreement, announced on Friday, covers the reciprocal exchange of fingerprints of asylum seekers and foreign criminals in each country. No2ID, which has campaigned against the ID card scheme, also criticised the agreement covering foreign...
[August 21, 2009, 15:41]
Are ID cards a game of blind man's bluff?
Talkback I have been instrumental in the homeoffice implementing the ARC asylum seekers fingerprint smart card. The card is a huge success, althogh the id card will be on a larger scale I don't see it causing too many problems to implement.
[November 19, 2003, 5:52]
Biometric tech gets small town trial
News It is also used to return failed asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka who have destroyed their documents, by confirming their true identity. Separately, the government announced plans to extend a biometric scheme for people applying for visas to the UK...
[August 28, 2003, 9:50]
The Blair IT projects
News Finally, in the run-up to a general election where asylum seekers were a hot topic, the government gave up and quietly ditched the £77m system. The document-management system, which was supposed to deal with asylum claims, was repeatedly delayed.
[June 27, 2007, 12:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Asylum seekers there have been issued with a biometric card containing the bearer's fingerprints, the better to tell who they are on demand. Monday 4/2/2002 Croydon is a joyless place: where better to do another experiment into Big Brotherhood...
[February 8, 2002, 15:58]
Hotmail complaints keep flowing in
Talkback the goverment are robbing the people by taxing them to much, and the police are robbing the motorist and the public by their camara system , sending people enormous fines and generaly upsetting every one this is because they cant afford all the...
[January 31, 2006, 20:33]
Bulldog pulling out of residential broadband
Talkback As US companies have proven, for many years, that they can't trade honestly and fairly, nor understand the UK consumer, we should have a total ban on US Corporations trading here, especially the likes of C&W who wouldn't cable an estae in Deptford...
[June 8, 2006, 16:56]
Don't let up in ID card battle
Leader This disparity has resulted in farce, with the Home Office apparently announcing that 63 percent of us would be delighted to spend £250 on a card because it would prevent cigarette sales to underage terrorist asylum seekers.
[October 20, 2005, 14:35]
Government ditches ID database plans
News Existing biometric storage systems currently used for asylum seekers will be used for the NIR in the short term. The government has trimmed back its controversial ID cards plans, ditching a single mega-database to hold all ID card information, and...
[December 20, 2006, 7:22]
