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Survey: ID theft costing UK billions in taxes
News Billions of pounds of taxpayers' money is stolen each year through ID theft and other fraudulent activities, according to a survey of public sector security analysts and IT managers. The government has been fast-tracking its scheme to roll out ID...
[July 14, 2004, 17:10]
ID cards strengthen market for data capture software
Blog With its ability to extract data from forms and documents of any type and complexity, this SDK may be a good instrument for developing vertical solutions such as those intended for processing ID cards.
[May 6, 2009, 8:34]
ID card costs rise amid security concerns
News Opponents of ID cards have renewed their attacks on the scheme, claiming security is being watered down even as the cost of the cards rises. Ian Angell, a professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) and one of the authors of a report into the...
[November 10, 2008, 8:53]
ID cards may be postponed until 2015
News In a U-turn, the government has ditched plans to force people to get a biometric ID card when they renew or apply for a passport. Home secretary Jacqui Smith also announced on Thursday that compulsory ID cards for all British citizens may now be...
[March 7, 2008, 13:11]
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 management remains problematic for businesses
News The problem boils down to the fact that both corporations and government can operate ID management schemes very easily, so long as we control the scheme. However, some IT professionals feel that the proposed use of identity management systems in...
[April 27, 2007, 18:00]
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 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 cards set back by equipment failure
News The failure of fingerprint and iris-recognition equipment delayed the launch of the government's biometric ID card trials by three months, Home Secretary David Blunkett has admitted to MPs. The trial, involving the registering of 10,000 volunteers...
[May 6, 2004, 12:25]
MP: ID card scheme is 'doomed to failure'
News The UK government's ID cards scheme has attracted heavy criticism from a senior Liberal Democrat MP, following the publication last month of an official report into a pilot biometrics programme. The Liberal Democrats maintain that the study...
[January 15, 2007, 12:36]
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 to cost over £5.6bn
News The UK's ID cards scheme will cost more than £5.6bn to set up and run over the next 10 years, according to the latest Home Office figures. A £5.43bn price tag covers the total resource costs of providing both e-passports and ID cards to British and...
[November 12, 2007, 7:24]
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 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. Q: The Home Office has said it will seek to overturn the Lords vote against the ID card Bill.
[January 18, 2006, 11:25]
ID card-based criminal record checks get thumbs up
News Plans for a new service using the government's controversial ID cards scheme to speed up criminal record checks have met with approval from volunteers involved in a trial of the technology. Each volunteer completed two legs in the trial — one using...
[October 2, 2007, 8:58]
ID Cards: A Titanic project waiting for its iceberg
Talkback Labour intents to circumvent the House of Lords's ID card showdown.
[January 19, 2006, 11:17]
ID card spending doubles to £56m
News The new Identity and Passport Service will spend £56m on setting up the controversial ID cards project this year. The IPS was created on 1 April, bringing together the Home Office ID cards programme and the UK Passport Service to issue passports...
[April 25, 2006, 9:30]
ID card bill savaged by the Lords, again
News The House of Lords has dealt another blow to the government's ID cards bill by voting against making it compulsory for people to have their biometric details included on the National Identity Register (NIR) when they apply for a new passport.
[January 24, 2006, 17:00]
ID cards 'taking focus away from e-crime'
News The government is ploughing too many resources into the ID cards scheme while failing to fight e-crime, a member of the House of Lords has claimed. Lord Erroll today said plans to roll out ID cards in the UK have been promoted by the government as...
[April 25, 2006, 15:50]
