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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]
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 Details Emerge In Bill
News The explanatory notes accompanying the bill quote an estimated £85 fee for a combined passport and ID card when the scheme begins in four years' time. The government's bill for an identity card, published on Monday, outlines details on penalties...
[November 30, 2004, 14:25]
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 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 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-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]
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 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 Bill Savaged By The Lords, Again
Talkback The ID Card could be made more useful, for example, by also coding it with proof of car insurance (and maybe also road tax, unless this could be added to fuel prices). Then add a card reader at the pumps whereby, without a valid card code, one...
[January 25, 2006, 11:33]
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-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 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 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 Battle Remains Deadlocked
News The ID cards battle remains deadlocked after MPs again overturned a House of Lords amendment that would have prevented people being forced to register for an ID card when applying for a passport. He said: "It's a deliberate effort by the opposition...
[March 16, 2006, 15:30]
ID Card Scheme 'to Cost £5.4bn'
Talkback My lad has just left school, no job, no money coming in so how could he pay for an ID card to get into the system. One of my extra gripes is why should we have to pay for the card? It's only far that the idiots behind this scheme make up any...
[October 10, 2006, 10:56]
ID Card Details Emerge In Bill
Talkback hmmm not too bad, "We don't intend to hold any more information than we currently hold" but I dont like the idea of being finned a £1000 for not renewing mine, I am okay with the biometrics on my passport because i can choose not to have a...
[November 30, 2004, 22:04]
ID Card Security Questioned
News In his letter, Gladman says that the government's ID card proposals "would create safety and security risks for all those whose details are held on the system". A former Ministry of Defence (MoD) information security specialist has warned Tony...
[February 15, 2006, 14:10]
ID Card Scheme 'to Cost £5.4bn'
News From 2010, anyone applying for or replacing a passport must also receive an ID card, although parliament will have to pass another law to make them compulsary for all citizens. The UK's identity card scheme will cost £5.4bn to set up and run over...
[October 9, 2006, 17:25]
