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Analyst urges Thai govt to delay ID cards
News In one of the most ambitious Java-based smart card deployment schemes in the world, the Thai government plans to issue the high-tech national ID card to all 61 million citizens. The Thai government’s plan to issue Java-based national ID cards to...
[October 16, 2003, 14:20]
Taiwan hands out 22 million ID cards
News In an even larger scheme in Thailand, the government plans to issue a Java-based national ID card to all 61 million citizens, according to a report in the Bangkok Post. The Taiwan government has completed the distribution of 22 million Java-based...
[September 29, 2003, 9:40]
China reveals massive smart ID card plan
News The new digital ID card, which uses smart ID technology, will be carried by 960 million Chinese citizens. According to a Chinese industry executive, trial runs for the smart ID card will begin in 2004, and most Chinese citizens can expect to...
[August 13, 2003, 16:05]
Europe speeds up electronic ID plans
News The proposed EU-wide health card is designed to eventually replace at least five different application forms that currently have to be filled in by EU citizens when studying, travelling, working or receiving health care in member states.
[October 23, 2003, 15:40]
Project aims to devise Euro e-ID platform
News For example, the Biopass platform is intended to meet requirements for the European Citizen Card, an identity card that allows citizens to perform such actions as filing tax returns online. Identity cards in Europe are meant to enable citizens to...
[October 22, 2009, 17:31]
Schneier: ID cards will worsen ID theft
News This means that from 2010 UK citizens will be issued with a biometric identification card when they renew a passport. An opt-out will be available until 2010, although citizens will still have their biometric and other personal details entered into...
[April 27, 2006, 12:50]
Compulsory ID card scheme on course for Parliament
News Compulsory biometric ID cards and a central database of all UK citizens could be created by 2010 under controversial legislation unveiled by the government in the Queen's speech on Wednesday. Underpinning the ID cards will be a central database...
[November 27, 2003, 9:10]
ID cards to be compulsory for air workers
News The move comes despite repeated assurances from the Home Office that UK citizens will not be compelled to have an ID card or enter their biometric details onto the National Identity Register. Wiltshire said airside workers "would not get the...
[November 6, 2008, 16:37]
Students refuse to be 'guinea pigs' for ID cards
News The first UK citizens will get the cards in 2009 when they are given to workers in trusted positions such as airport staff or people working in other sensitive locations, while foreign nationals coming to the UK will be given cards from the end of...
[January 25, 2008, 8:41]
UK, US, Russia, China - surveillance blackspots
Blog Meanwhile, the Washington Post is reporting that US federal government will soon offer its citizens an RFID enabled identity card that can be read at a distance of 20 feet, for those who frequently cross borders.
[January 2, 2008, 17:32]
ID cards chief dismisses U-turn claims
News James Hall, director of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), told ZDNet.co.uk sister site silicon.com that the revised scheme is likely to cut £1bn off the scheme's £5.4bn price tag, that power-station workers are likely to join airport...
[March 11, 2008, 8:02]
Home Office aims to drive down cost of ID cards
News Philippe Martin, senior analyst at Kable, said: "I welcome the minister's aim of reducing the cost of the card, but the government must demonstrate the benefits of the ID scheme to citizens, such as accessing health and other services, if it wants...
[April 23, 2008, 8:42]
ID projects to boom and run late
News Over the next few years, some key schemes will focus on facilitating citizens' interaction and access to government information, the report says. The number would be stored on public sector records for organisations to use when contacting citizens.
[September 29, 2005, 17:55]
Phishing line used to sell ID cards
News Burnham also said that, while the Home Office is currently citing a "unit cost" of £93 for each card, this would not necessarily be the fee charged to citizens. The plans set out today will ensure the UK is the forefront of that drive and making...
[May 27, 2005, 15:15]
ID cards: £1,000 fine for skipping biometric scans
News The fines would apply to foreign nationals entering or living in the UK, who will be required to have ID cards from November, ahead of the cards' introduction for UK citizens next year. The widespread rollout to UK citizens, known as "Borders phase...
[February 27, 2008, 7:59]
Home Office proclaims security of ID cards scheme
News This could indicate a postponement of ID cards for UK nationals, as the government changes the direction of the scheme away from providing a card to facilitate access to services and towards collecting information about citizens," said Martin.
[February 27, 2008, 13:34]
Pulling together UK ID card privacy threads
Blog This is in line with the UK government aim to increase access by citizens to online government services. I was told that citizens would be able to change erroneous data about themselves on the National Identity Register, but that additional data...
[February 9, 2009, 16:40]
HMRC fiasco: Security experts predict fallout
News As far as government policy over the handling of citizens' information goes, this breach is a pretty damning indictment for the proposed ID card scheme. The best advice it can come up with is that citizens likely to be affected should keep a close...
[November 23, 2007, 10:29]
Pilots may bring legal challenge against ID card plan
News It comes as the Scottish government supported calls for the government to cancel the UK rollout of the £4.7bn scheme, adding that they present an "unacceptable threat to citizens' privacy and civil liberties".
[February 17, 2009, 7:39]
Fitting passports with biometric data
News Governments worried that their citizens would feel like they were being arrested. Critics of the technology, however, are worried that governments might use the data to track citizens going about their ordinary business or that miscreants who steal...
[August 18, 2004, 15:45]
