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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. The compulsory nature of the card, which will cost £35...
[November 27, 2003, 9:10]
ID cards - compulsory or not?
Blog It's not going to be compulsory to carry around ID cards. In any case, you'll automatically register for an ID card if you renew or apply for a passport, so pretending that it's not compulsory in any way is frankly a joke.
[July 12, 2007, 17:38]
re: compulsory ID cards
Talkback .of course the compulsory fee that comes with having to obtain a card has got nothing to do with it.my partner is a foreign national, but has lived here (legally! for many years, and contributed a lot through tax.
[February 13, 2009, 16:55]
ID cards - compulsory or not?
Blog Comment In Spain, it is compulsory in theory to always have your ID card with you in the street. Unlike in the UK carrying one is not perceived as an infringement of liberty. What people do is either not bother, and if in the remote chance of a police...
[July 15, 2007, 15:12]
Gov't U-turns on compulsory ID cards for pilots
News The government has announced that it will drop plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers. As a result, a pilot scheme to issue workers with compulsory cards, which was planned for two airports, Manchester and London City, will not take...
[June 30, 2009, 17:44]
ID cards to be compulsory for air workers
News A pilot programme of the government's National Identity Scheme, which covers airside workers, will be compulsory at one of the two participating airports. Richard Gooding, the chief executive of London City Airport, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that...
[November 6, 2008, 16:37]
US mulls compulsory tag on 'adult spam'
Talkback Utterly worthless window-dressing, much like the CanSpam Act itself, which did nothing to block it and worse, legitimized "legal" spam. I suspect most porn spam originates outside the US, but even if it doesn't, this law isn't worth the dead trees...
[January 29, 2004, 17:14]
Home Office expands scope of compulsory ID cards
News The Home Office has made a formal request to parliament to increase the scope of ID cards for foreign nationals. Under the proposed regulations, which are part of government plans, applicants under six categories for UK immigration will need to...
[February 12, 2009, 16:32]
US mulls compulsory tag on 'adult spam'
News The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday proposed a mandatory tag for commercial email that contains pornographic material -- a stipulation of the new federal anti-spam law enacted this month. The FTC, which is charged with enforcing the Can-Spam...
[January 29, 2004, 15:05]
ID card bill savaged by the Lords, again
News The House of Lords has dealt another blow to the government's ID cards bill by voting against making it compulsory for people to have their biometric details included on the National Identity Register (NIR) when they apply for a new passport.
[January 24, 2006, 17:00]
UK cold on mandatory security audits
News Companies, politicians and analysts are united in their belief that the introduction of compulsory IT security audits in the UK would not be a welcome development. Despite this knock-on effect, the CBI says it doesn't support the introduction of...
[December 8, 2003, 17:05]
10,000 volunteers to trial ID cards
News The government has announced the launch of a trial to pave the way for its compulsory ID card scheme. Beverley Hughes, Home Office Minister, said in a statement: "We are building the foundations for a compulsory national identity card scheme, and...
[December 5, 2003, 14:35]
Re: Stealth
Talkback > There is a strong suggestion that, while not making ID cards compulsory in themselves, many other everyday activities will become impossible without an ID card. This might, however become a problem if and when the cards become compulsory.
[January 12, 2008, 14:39]
Can't have it both ways
Talkback dealers are at present coining it in by the compulsory sale of Windows operating systems on new machines even when it's not wanted, but they seem to think thats OK. But when it comes to selling non compulsory products that people don't want they...
[December 1, 2008, 13:15]
Union will fight to save UK mobile jobs
News Union leaders will meet with Swedish mobile phone firm Ericsson early next week in an attempt to save UK workers from compulsory redundancy. The priority then is to avoid compulsory redundancies and plant shutdowns," a spokesman for the AEEU...
[April 20, 2001, 13:48]
ID cards may be delayed until 2012
News The rollout of compulsory national ID cards for British citizens looks likely to be delayed until after the next election, casting doubt over the future of the scheme. Enrolment on the National Identity Scheme cannot become universally compulsory...
[January 23, 2008, 12:58]
ID cards for foreign nationals unveiled
News The ID cards, which will be compulsory for foreign nationals from outside the European Economic Area, will be phased in from 25 November. From 2009, airport workers will be the next segment of the population who will have compulsory ID cards, under...
[September 25, 2008, 18:14]
Study: Customers wary of online IDs
News In the continuing Microsoft antitrust trail, a Sun Microsystems executive claimed that Microsoft is hoping to drive Passport membership through compulsory enrolment in its Windows XP operating system and through other products.
[April 26, 2002, 14:02]
Government launches e-learning taskforce
News The initiative will extend the government's e-learning strategy beyond the compulsory stage of education. In the vast and variable world of post-compulsory education, e-learning can provide an even more vital tool for raising standards than it does...
[February 1, 2002, 13:08]
ID cards: Aviation workers being 'used politically'
News ID cards for 'airside' workers — those who work beyond airport security checks — will become compulsory in 2009. We will be the first industry to have compulsory ID passes, even before the voluntary scheme is in place.
[July 4, 2008, 16:59]
