Government Plays For Time Over ID Cards
News The government is still refusing to disclose the result of its public consultation on the introduction of entitlement cards, even though the process closed over five months ago, it has emerged. This analysis will be heavily scrutinised once it is...
[June 19, 2003, 11:57]
Survey Gives Thumbs-up To ID Cards
News Four out of five UK citizens are in favour of the introduction of entitlement cards, including the use of biometrics, according to a survey published on Thursday. The research, which was conducted on behalf of technology company SchlumbergerSema...
[January 30, 2003, 9:09]
Government Denies ID Card Climbdown
News Reports claiming that the government might be preparing for an embarrassing u-turn on the issue of entitlement cards have been firmly rejected by Home Office officials. We may not proceed with the scheme, and if we do it will take several years...
[January 24, 2003, 14:55]
Government Wants Your View On Smart Cards
News A Cabinet Office spokeswoman told ZDNet UK that the smart card work was not related to the Home Office's work on entitlement or ID cards. Last year, the Home Office launched a consultation on the introduction of entitlement cards, which could be...
[July 31, 2003, 15:25]
Opposition Grows In ID Card Debate
News In a press release issued in December, the government claimed that most of the feedback it had received supported the introduction of entitlement cards. Back in July 2002 the UK government launched a six-month consultation into entitlement cards...
[January 15, 2003, 16:36]
ID Cards: The Full Story
News Update: The Home Office has disclosed that 4,856 people sent emails via Stand's Web site that opposed the introduction of entitlement cards, but the final result of the consultation hasn't yet been revealed
[November 13, 2003, 12:30]
ID Cards 'very Much On The Political Agenda'
Talkback There has been limited and obfuscated public debate (the original proposal was for 'Entitlement Cards', remember? 1). Nobody has told me how these are supposed to stop terrorists? Especially if this is their first criminal act, as it was for some...
[April 7, 2004, 10:01]
ID Card Row Hits New Low
News The government was accused on Thursday of playing dirty politics after it refused to disclose the fate of almost 6,000 responses to last year's consultation on entitlement cards. Most of these submissions, it is believed, opposed the introduction...
[June 5, 2003, 12:45]
Government May Ignore ID Card Opposition
News Last year, the government announced that it was considering introducing entitlement cards that would contain personal information and possibly also biometric data and would have to be presented when people accessed certain government services.
[May 30, 2003, 16:29]
Privacy International Cries Foul Over ID Cards
News Civil liberties group Privacy International lodged a complaint of maladministration with the parliamentary ombudsman on Thursday against the government over its handling of the consultation into entitlement cards.
[January 30, 2003, 17:55]
ID Cards: Do Benefits Outweigh Risks?
News Back in July 2002 the UK government launched a six-month consultation into entitlement cards, which it claims could help combat fraud and identity theft, and deliver public services more effectively. Although the government insists that entitlement...
[January 23, 2003, 16:38]
Security Services Markup Language
White Papers Authentication, authorization, and entitlement information required to complete or enable a transaction may originate from many sites and be interpreted at other sites. S2ML recognizes that there are a wide range of authentication technologies in...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Are ID Cards A Game Of Blind Man's Bluff?
Talkback Entitlement Cards' was a name only dropped after it became apparent that everyone KNEW they were ID cards. Secondly, why are the media so for ID cards? A few weeks ago the BBC had a report on why ID cards were considered just normal in Belgium.
[November 13, 2003, 13:39]
Government Ignores Web Opposition Over ID Cards
News A consultation on the issue ended in January 2003, and after months of procrastinating the Home Office eventually revealed that nearly 5,000 people had registered their opposition to the introduction of ID cards -- or entitlement cards, as those...
[November 12, 2003, 17:10]
Compulsory ID Card Scheme On Course For Parliament
News The government will have the power to mandate that an ID card is produced to use certain public services -- an element retained from Blunkett's original "entitlement" card plans. Compulsory biometric ID cards and a central database of all UK...
[November 27, 2003, 9:10]
Leaked Emails Predict ID Card Failure
Talkback This would not only allow control of benefit welfare payments, but allow such as hospitals to access sufficient to establish entitlement to "free" treatment. Whatever form the ID cards take - if they ever do appear nationally - there is nothing...
[August 31, 2006, 19:26]
More Rubbish.
Talkback As a consequence, now I am job hunting again, my benefit entitlement, having stuffed over £3K into the system with Tax and NI over the last 3 months of work is £60 per week for 6 months full stop, absolutely nothing else and if I don't bend over...
[April 23, 2008, 13:46]
ID Cards 'were Oversold'
News We did suggest, or at least implied, that they may well be a panacea for identity fraud, for benefit fraud, terrorism, entitlement and access to public services. The UK government has admitted that it exaggerated the benefits of ID cards by...
[August 4, 2005, 14:50]
