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ID card bill could reach £30bn
News The cost of an individual ID card could rise to almost £500 due to the cost of integrating the IT infrastructure with other government departments and public sector bodies, according to new figures from the
[November 1, 2005, 9:40]
ID card database could double as voter register
Talkback I think that e-voting systems are great, if you merged it with an ID card system then you would be able to tell who did not vote and then ban their benefit or deport them. Great! Im all for that, people who don't vote should not be a part of the...
[January 26, 2005, 23:00]
ID card scheme under review
Talkback Lobby MPs to remove the ID Card Act from the books. What we do is very simple. It can't be built as a government project today and is too dangerous to leave on the books for another unknown government to implement in their own sweet way tomorrow.
[July 12, 2006, 13:19]
ID card ad campaign to launch later this year
News The Home Office is to spend over £500,000 this year on a marketing campaign for the identity card that features cartoon fingerprints. A departmental spokesperson told GC News that it is planning a public information campaign to alert businesses on...
[September 28, 2009, 9:00]
ID Card on track says government
Blog This just in on the ongoing ID Card issue. BTW Bruce Schneier says we shouldn't get all hot and bothered over ID cards as they are just a temporary technology before unseen biometrics take over http://adonoghue.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/uk-id-card...
[November 6, 2008, 13:03]
ID card costs rise amid security concerns
News Ian Angell, a professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) and one of the authors of a report into the scheme, said this undermines the government's claim the ID card system will offer a rock-solid way of verifying a person's identity by...
[November 10, 2008, 8:53]
ID card database plans expand
News The government says the ID card database will become a national population register of basic personal information for the public sector to verify identity and has called for the development of a children's register as well.
[April 19, 2006, 15:45]
ID Card shenanigans
Talkback Hmm, pay £30 to have my details stored on a National Identity Register, a further £30 for an ID card, on top of the £74 it costs for a passport (plus the additional cost of having it sent securely) AND a potential fine of up to £1,000 for...
[July 8, 2009, 9:43]
ID card scheme under review
News The Government is re-evaluating its ID card project as part of a wider review of the Home Office's activities. The Home Office confirmed on Tuesday that the ID card project, which will involve a massive database of personal and biometric data, will...
[July 11, 2006, 15:50]
ID-card contracts allow suppliers to be searched
News The five companies in the running for the national ID-card scheme contracts are IBM, CSC, EDS, Fujitsu and Thales. Phil Booth, the national co-ordinator of NO2ID, a group campaigning against the government's planned ID card and the National...
[December 10, 2008, 7:14]
ID card compromise reached in Parliament
News Previously the ID cards bill, which the House of Lords has rejected five times over the past few weeks, required anyone renewing a passport to also receive an ID card by 2008. The amendments mean that until 2010 those renewing passports will be...
[March 30, 2006, 17:30]
ID card 'chip and PIN' proposal raises security fears
News Longbottom added that the system was also vulnerable to PIN numbers being spied on in public and to criminals hacking terminals to steal card transaction and PIN details. What a wonderful functionality that would be but that's not going to be...
[April 16, 2009, 9:19]
ID card-based criminal record checks get thumbs up
News Each volunteer completed two legs in the trial — one using a passport and one using an ID card. Nearly nine out of 10 volunteers said the ID card-linked service is even more robust than the passport-linked process.
[October 2, 2007, 8:58]
MP: ID card scheme is 'doomed to failure'
News But critics at No2ID, the anti-ID card pressure group, have accused the government of reducing the role of iris recognition following the publication of the iris-recognition pilot study. At this stage, it's not clear which biometric data will be...
[January 15, 2007, 12:36]
ID card data will remain unreadable until 2010
News Crothers said it will be up to other public and private bodies to decide when enough cards had been issued to make it worth investing in the ID card readers. While the cardholder's details and photo are printed on the face of the card, their...
[April 8, 2009, 8:25]
ID card bill could reach £15bn
News The ID card scheme could cost up to £15bn, almost three times more than the government's estimates, according to the most detailed analysis issued so far. The latest figures from the Home Office claim that the scheme will cost £5.8bn, which works...
[June 27, 2005, 17:08]
ID card-scheme reaches procurement 'milestone'
News The UK's controversial national ID-card programme has taken a big step closer to reality. The IPS predicts total spending on these procurement contracts will be around £2bn — a significant chunk of the ID card scheme's £5.5bn total budget.
[August 10, 2007, 8:59]
ID card database could double as voter register
Talkback So, the ID card is linked to the voting register, which (as another reader pointed out) gets linked to an e-voting system, and hey presto! Notice they're not bothing to pretend that it'll be voluntary any more.
[January 27, 2005, 12:48]
ID card bill gets Tory boost
News After months of opposition wrangling, the Conservatives have pledged their support to the government's ID card bill, which the party had previously described as "deeply flawed". Tory leader Michael Howard has quashed disagreement within the shadow...
[December 14, 2004, 13:55]
ID card database could double as voter register
News The government's proposed ID card database could serve as a nationwide electronic voter register, a committee of MPs was told on 25 January, 2005. Ministers have so far said little about using an ID card for voter registration, but are planning a...
[January 26, 2005, 15:30]
