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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]
Home Office agency buys biometric security
News The Home Office's Security Industry Authority (SIA) has announced a deal with ISL Biometrics to install biometric technology for network access. Biometric authentication systems have been installed to give remote workers and office staff access to...
[April 16, 2004, 8:35]
Home Office: Immigration points system 'will benefit UK'
News Intended to make it easier for highly skilled workers from outside the EU to enter the country to work without first having a job offer or sponsor, the new scheme could boost the skilled workforce in the UK, according to the Home Office.
[March 8, 2006, 15:15]
Home Office: 50,000 ID cards to be issued by April
News The Home Office also revealed that the role and budget of the National Identity Scheme's commissioner — a post which is required by the Identity Cards Act 2006 — has not been decided. In response to a parliamentary question asked by Lynne Jones MP...
[September 9, 2008, 14:04]
Home Office in DNA mixed bag
Blog The Home Office has come up with a mixed bag of proposals to get around the inconvenient fact that holding innocent people's DNA details indefinitely has been ruled illegal. A Home Office press statement said that these measures were designed to...
[May 7, 2009, 17:19]
Home Office advisor urges biometrics testing
News A senior Home Office advisor has warned that biometrics has a massive usability hurdle to overcome before systems can be rolled out. However, Marek Rejman-Greene, a senior biometrics advisor for the Home Office's scientific development branch, has...
[October 20, 2006, 13:50]
Home Office defends comms-surveillance plans
News The Home Office has said ministers have not yet decided how to retain data on all communication — but has defended the importance of doing so. The Home Office said the means are still under consideration, but that the aim of collecting all...
[October 9, 2008, 15:27]
Home Office admits data retention plans
News The Home Office has admitted that it plans to reserve extra powers to force ISPs to retain data about customers if its current "voluntary code of practice" proves inadequate to deal with terrorists. It also leaves wide open the question of what...
[October 26, 2001, 18:25]
Home Office reveals early ID vendors
News The Home Office has listed 3M and nCipher as providers to the early stage of the National Identity Scheme. However, she added that although the Home Office is investigating possible alternatives, "no final method has been decided", and no cost can...
[March 25, 2009, 7:47]
Home Office data loss included drug records
News The Home Office has confirmed that the volume of data on a lost memory stick was much larger than originally reported. The Home Office spokesperson said the lost memory stick has not been recovered. Its resource-accounts for 2008-09 show that 377...
[August 27, 2009, 8:46]
Lawyer: Home Office unlikely to U-turn on hacker
News On Friday the Home Office said it would not reconsider its position McKinnon before the outcome of McKinnon's supreme court hearing this week. The case is before the courts, and we don't propose to comment further pending the outcome of the court's...
[June 8, 2009, 15:26]
Home Office introduces a dozen ID card readers
News The Home Office has introduced a dozen identity card readers as part of a pilot scheme, having had none earlier this year. In a written parliamentary answer on 11 November, Home Office minister Phil Woolas said that as of 1 October, the Home Office...
[November 16, 2009, 14:39]
Home Office backs seven-year data retention laws
News The Home Office is planning to introduce new surveillance laws that would allow communications traffic data to be stored for up to seven years. According to sources familiar with the issue, the Home Office is supporting the proposed EU...
[September 28, 2001, 15:54]
Home Office 'wrong' over criminalisation of IT pros
News The Home Office has been blasted by lawyers over its claims that changes to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) will not affect legitimate users. Home Office minister Vernon Coaker claimed this week that amendments to the CMA will only criminalise those...
[July 19, 2006, 16:45]
Home Office launches virtual strip searches
News Criminals worried about what life behind bars may be like are offered an online prison tour as part of a new service launched by the Home Office. The Home Office is offering a virtual tour of prison life where Web site visitors are shown the inside...
[October 12, 2004, 17:05]
Home/Office Inventory Book
Downloads Home/Office Inventory Book for Windows: Tool for organizing, planning, and keeping track of your home or office contents. You may gather as much detail as you: item name, producers, location, warranty time, value, service phone, notes and much more.
[June 5, 2005, 8:00]
Home Office has received over 1,000 ID card requests
News More than 1,000 messages asking for ID cards have flooded into the Home Office. Smith also said the Home Office planned to introduce a secure "web-based service" to allow people to check how much of their "core identity information" is held on the...
[December 23, 2008, 7:27]
Home Office pledges £1.5m to help protect children online
News Home Office minister Beverley Hughes announced the child safety campaign on Monday. In March 2001, the Home Office set up an Internet Taskforce to investigate concerns that paedophiles were using Internet chatrooms to meet children.
[December 3, 2001, 11:38]
Home Office responds to Facebook criticism
Blog The Home Office has given a response to Facebook's assertion that monitoring all communications on social-networking sites would be overkill. The Home Office sent me a statement yesterday evening: The government has no interest in the content of...
[March 25, 2009, 15:58]
Home Office looks to high street for ID biometrics
News The Home Office wants to use the tender process to gauge whether businesses such as post offices and banks would be interested in participating in taking fingerprints from people for the scheme, ZDNet UK understands.
[November 5, 2008, 17:11]
