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ID Cards Unveiled In Queen's Speech
Talkback PLEASE save us from ID cards - PLEASE save us from ID cards - PLEASE save us from ID cards! Being German and 45 years happy to be living in the UK now and NOT having the regime of ID cards I'm scared now of the being introduce now her in the UK...
[November 30, 2004, 11:38]
ID Cards: A Titanic Project Waiting For Its Iceberg
News The controversy around ID Cards raged on this week with the rejection of the ID card bill by the House of Lords. How do you feel about using ID cards for both authentication and to establish identity?
[January 18, 2006, 11:25]
ID Cards Labelled As Human Rights Threat
News Among its concerns is that some of the information held by the government's registry for ID cards may not "serve a legitimate aim or be proportional to that aim". The Committee also believes that ID cards could become "effectively compulsory" for...
[February 3, 2005, 14:25]
ID Cards Bill Rises From The Ashes
News Tony Blair will reintroduce the national ID cards bill in the Queen's Speech on Tuesday but a senior government official has admitted that concessions will have to be made to ensure its passage through parliament.
[May 16, 2005, 17:40]
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. A Home Office action plan on ID cards from two years ago set 2010 as a key...
[January 23, 2008, 12:58]
ID Cards Bill Back On The Table
News The UK government has reintroduced legislation paving the way for its biometric ID cards. Speaking in the House of Commons earlier this week, junior Home Office minister Andy Burnham said ID cards will give the public a "highly secure" way of...
[May 25, 2005, 15:25]
ID Cards Campaigners Aren't Giving Up
News If the ID card bill does pass into law, the first cards should be issued in 2008. That would be a different phase of the campaign," said Booth, implying that opposition to ID cards could continue for years.
[February 10, 2006, 10:00]
ID Cards Chief Casts Doubt On Scheme Security
News The chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service has said the ID cards database will not be completely secure. Campaigners against ID cards said it was "no surprise" that the government would not be able to safeguard citizen data in the...
[July 4, 2008, 12:07]
ID Cards: Aviation Workers Being 'used Politically'
News Representatives of the aviation industry have said they are being used as political pawns to further the government's controversial ID cards programme. ID cards for 'airside' workers — those who work beyond airport security checks — will become...
[July 4, 2008, 16:59]
ID Cards Still Top Of Labour's Agenda
Talkback Erm, tell me exaclty, what have you got against ID cards? Your wallet has all the information in it that a ID card would - are you against your wallet? I would love using one card instead of my Studen ID, Bank, Donar, Phone etc.
[May 4, 2005, 17:04]
ID Cards Still Top Of Labour's Agenda
Talkback ID CARDS WILL NOT STOP IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS OR TERRISTS FROM DOING WHAT THEY BELIEVE AS TO BE DONE ID IS FOR THE GOVERMENT AND DHSS ETC IMMIGRATION CAUSED BY OTHERS OF OUR OWN KIND MAKING MONEY . GERMANY COULD NOT STOP US INTHE LAST WAR FROM...
[May 5, 2005, 18:30]
ID Cards Scheme Has Cost Nearly £50m
News The Government has revealed it has spent almost £50m on the controversial ID cards scheme before the project is even off the ground. In a written answer to a parliamentary question by Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Öpik, the Home Office said £46.4m had...
[August 18, 2006, 17:20]
ID Cards 'were Oversold'
News The UK government has admitted that it exaggerated the benefits of ID cards by claiming they would be a panacea for identity theft, benefit fraud and terrorism. McNulty refused to apologise for overselling the benefits of ID cards but admitted they...
[August 4, 2005, 14:50]
ID Cards Are Used To Control People
Talkback ID cards are as they always have been used to control the population. Who benefits? Follow the money. If you think it will prevent terrorist attacks you only need to check out history, and many de-classified documents to debunk that idea.google...
[December 10, 2007, 14:57]
ID Cards Campaigners Aren't Giving Up
Talkback Everyone I have spoken to about this who is in favour of ID cards is largely ignorant of the issues - those that do understand it fully are usually against. Do yourself a favour and read up on it now, protesting you didn't know enough about it to...
[February 13, 2006, 11:36]
ID Cards Bill Passes Second Commons Reading
News The government's majority was slashed by more than half at the ID cards bill vote in parliament on Tuesday, despite Home Secretary Charles Clarke promising a range of concessions in order to stave off a full-scale backbench Labour rebellion.
[June 29, 2005, 16:15]
ID Cards 'very Much On The Political Agenda'
News The terrorist threat to the UK will lead to ID cards being introduced "more quickly than even we anticipated", according to the prime minister, Tony Blair. Blair's comments at his monthly briefing to journalists follow on from the "route map" to ID...
[April 2, 2004, 16:20]
ID Cards - Compulsory Or Not?
Blog It's not going to be compulsory to carry around ID cards. So said Stephen Harrison, policy director at the ID & Passport Service, when asked today at the Westminster eForum on ID cards, surveillance and data protection.
[July 12, 2007, 17:38]
ID Cards Still Top Of Labour's Agenda
Talkback I'm curious: are there any IT literate people out there that think ID cards are a good idea?
[April 18, 2005, 12:30]
ID Cards 'very Much On The Political Agenda'
Talkback ID cards are I think a great idea providing they are designed to be extremely difficult to forge. During ww2 everyone in England was required to carry one and I think the only objectors might be those who have something to hide.
[April 5, 2004, 23:51]
