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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 for foreign nationals unveiled
News The Home Office unveiled ID cards for foreign nationals on Thursday, attracting protests from opposition parties and campaigners. The ID cards, which will be compulsory for foreign nationals from outside the European Economic Area, will be phased...
[September 25, 2008, 18:14]
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 'very much on the political agenda'
Talkback I feel ID Cards to be a good step forward in the right direction, but they have to be 'secure' & unforgeable. Every person resident in this country carried ID during WWII, why not in the near future? I don't see where the 'Civil Liberties' Brigade...
[April 21, 2004, 0:16]
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: 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: 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 ID cards programme. ID cards for 'airside' workers — those who work beyond airport security checks — will become compulsory in 2009.
[July 4, 2008, 16:59]
Id cards will not work - we live in a free country
Talkback I am surprised banks ever thought ID cards would work. In a few years time the government would make it compulsory to carry ID Cards. Therefore, I will not carry one. I was born in a free country (thanks to a previous generation).
[February 4, 2009, 12:54]
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 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 unveiled in Queen's Speech
News Legislation for national ID cards and the UK's version of the FBI were the key planks of the Queen's Speech today, which promised "security for all". The ID card scheme proposed by the Home Office will see the introduction of a standalone ID card...
[November 23, 2004, 14:40]
ID cards labelled as human rights threat
Talkback Perhaps the new ID cards would let the Government track exactly where David Blunkett is sleeping at night .and with whom! I'm not surprised that the PM is in favour of this.
[May 18, 2005, 22:11]
ID cards bill scrapes through
News Also defeated - by 33 votes - was an amendment to remove all charges for ID cards. Ahead of the vote, Clarke had promised to cap the fee for stand-alone ID cards - those not combined with passports - at £30 each.
[October 20, 2005, 10:05]
ID cards chief dismisses U-turn claims
News The head of Britain's ID cards project and national identity database has defended the government's revised ID-card plans in the face of allegations of a U-turn, after the project was scaled back. It also emerged that employers at so-called...
[March 11, 2008, 8:02]
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 bill rises from the ashes
Talkback One of the big sticking points on ID cards is the ID database the Gov want to keep. Maybe this might help the introduction of the ID Card without a Big Brother database. This has all the hallmarks of Big Brother.
[May 19, 2005, 9:49]
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 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]
