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Government kicks UK when it's down with more ID Card news
Blog Work is underway to identify a number of areas across the UK where British nationals can be among the first to apply for an identity card, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced when she visited Manchester today.
[January 29, 2009, 16:07]
Home secretary defends high-street biometrics plans
News Home secretary Jacqui Smith has insisted biometrics taken from people in high-street businesses will be secure. While anti-ID campaigners have said it will be almost impossible to lock fingerprints to biographical details in a secure manner if...
[November 7, 2008, 16:34]
Reports: Smith to resign as home secretary
Blog There are various reports that Jacqui Smith is to resign as home secretary in the wake of the MPs expenses scandal. Smith, who has presided over Home Office-led IT projects, including the plan to log all internet data traffic, and who has pushed...
[June 2, 2009, 13:55]
Policy is Truth
Talkback "Speaking at the launch of the UK's first ID cards on Thursday, home secretary Jacqui Smith claimed problems with taking or recognising fingerprints pose no threat to the effectiveness of the ID-card system.
[September 29, 2008, 15:09]
Nasa hacker gains judicial review
Blog Self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon has won a judicial review of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's October decision to carry on with his extradition to the US, even after McKinnon's diagnosis with Asperger's syndrome.
[January 23, 2009, 12:29]
Home Office begins work on comms data
News Home secretary Jacqui Smith has said her department already has a team working on how it obtains communications data. We have brought together a team to look at some of the technical solutions around what it might be necessary to do, precisely in...
[October 30, 2008, 8:22]
Nasa hacker: I'm safe until prosecution decision
News At the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday, McKinnon told ZDNet UK that home secretary Jacqui Smith had decided not to extradite the self-confessed hacker to the US to face charges of hacking military networks until Keir Starmer, the director of...
[January 21, 2009, 11:03]
ID Card on track says government
Blog Significant progress in the delivery of the National Identity Scheme which will protect your identity in the most secure and convenient way, was announced today by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, said:
[November 6, 2008, 13:03]
ID card scheme costs rise to £400m annually
News The figures were released in an impact assessment signed by home secretary Jacqui Smith and placed in the House of This will produce a net benefit of £2bn to £10bn, with the midpoint, £6bn, quoted by Jacqui Smith in a speech last week.The Home...
[May 11, 2009, 12:57]
Gibson: Is McKinnon still here?
Blog I think Jacqui Smith made the determination -- the Asperger's diagnosis shouldn't have any bearing [on whether McKinnon is extradited]," said Gibson. I said that his defence lawyers were seeking a judicial review of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's...
[October 30, 2008, 16:39]
Home secretary reveals early ID-card demand
News Home secretary Jacqui Smith has said that 1,142 messages from the public to the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) between November 2006 and October 2008 were classified as 'wants an ID card'. This made ID-card requests "by far the most common...
[December 19, 2008, 12:21]
Home Office has received over 1,000 ID card requests
News Over the past two years, 1,142 out of 3,073 pieces of correspondence to government on the biometric cards have been classified as "wants an ID card", according to home secretary Jacqui Smith. Smith revealed the figures in a recent parliamentary...
[December 23, 2008, 7:27]
Nasa hacker loses last-ditch appeal
Blog Self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith against extradition to the US. In an email sent to ZDNet.co.uk on Monday, McKinnon's solicitor Karen Todner said that McKinnon's legal team would now...
[October 13, 2008, 18:03]
Gov't: Comms database has to happen
News In a speech to an Institute for Public Policy Research commission on Wednesday, the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, said the introduction of new laws to monitor modern communications is necessary in order to combat terrorism and serious crime.
[October 16, 2008, 0:01]
ID cards for foreign nationals unveiled
News Home secretary Jacqui Smith claimed on Thursday that the cards will allow employers to check work entitlement more easily. ID cards for foreign nationals will replace old-fashioned paper documents and make it easier for employers and sponsors to...
[September 25, 2008, 18:14]
Crime In Focus : A paper examining pitfalls in public crime mapping
White Papers In July 2008, UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith pledged that interactive maps, which allow every neighbourhood in England and Wales to access local crime information, were to be put in place by every police force in the land by the end of the year.
[August 20, 2009, 0:00]
Home Office: 50,000 ID cards to be issued by April
News In response to a parliamentary written question from Liberal Democrats shadow home secretary Chris Huhne, home secretary Jacqui Smith said that about 50,000 ID cards will be issued between the scheme's launch for foreign nationals in November and...
[September 9, 2008, 14:04]
Home Office cuts estimated cost of ID-cards scheme
News Jacqui Smith said the cost of the application and enrolment contract is now estimated at between £350m and £450m, while the National Biometric Identity Service will cost between £200m and £250m, and the figure for the design and production of the...
[November 25, 2008, 10:20]
ID popularity?
Talkback Jacqui Smith is not only not very good at statistics, her arguments are hollow and unconvincing. So: in TWO YEARS, 1000 people said they wanted an ID card? She has omitted to mention the untold millions who are vehemently against them.
[December 19, 2008, 14:41]
First UK ID Card unveiled
Blog At 11.30 on Thurs, Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, is set to show off the first National ID Card to journalists at an event at the Home Office. You can either look at this as a pilot which may completely fail or the first beach-head in the government...
[September 25, 2008, 9:30]
