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UK ID cards will be useless in Europe
David Neal | ACCORDING TO the UK’s Identity Minister, the Government’s ID cards won’t be worth the paper they’ll be printed on. Despite the fact that the cards are almost in UK citizens’ wallets
Read More »Privacy Breaches By ID Card Staff
Nine staff have been sacked from their local authority jobs for snooping on personal records of celebrities and personal acquaintances held on the core database of the government’s National Identity Scheme. Mark Ballard They
Read More »ID cards and the snooper state
IT IS simply wrong of James Hall, CEO of the Identity & Passport Service, to suggest that the personal information stored on the National Identity Register is equivalent to the data already collected for
Read More »Indians to get biometric ID cards
The Indian government plans to give all of its 1.2 billion citizens biometric ID cards, and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani will lead the project. The project team will face a huge challenge in securing
Read More »IBM biometrics ID cards contract to last 7 years
IBM’s contract to supply technology for ID cards will last seven years, despite the possibility that a change in government could scupper the scheme. The company and the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) announced
Read More »Don’t be fooled by ID Card “change”
The card itself is just the useless bit of plastic that is the visible part of the scheme, and is the only part that will become voluntary. The truly intrusive part of the scheme,
Read More »NO2ID: ID Cards are not ‘voluntary’
Readers may be aware that the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, has announced that the planned ID cards will be “voluntary”, and that no-one will have to carry one. However, the Government is still pressing
Read More »Government burying ID card costs in passports
The Conservatives have accused the government of burying the cost of ID cards in a hike in the price of passports. Yesterday the government announced an increase in the price of a 10-year adult
Read More »ID cards are not being scrapped but accelerated
Home secretary Alan Johnson has flatly denied killing off the ID card programme with his announcement last week that the scheme will be entirely voluntary for UK citizens. He delivered the denial in a
Read More »Battle for ID cards hits the Commons
ID cards have finally reached the Commons again, with a Conservative opposition day debate on the scheme due for debate this afternoon. The opposition is calling for the plan to be scrapped altogether. This
Read More »Home Secretary ditched ID cards without telling Brown
GORDON Brown’s main rival for the Labour leadership tore up the government’s key ID card policy without informing the Prime Minister, it was reported last night. The Home Secretary Alan Johnson is said to
Read More »Mandelson says No U-turn on ID cards
Home secretary Alan Johnson’s pledge that the government will not make ID cards compulsory is not a U-turn on policy, according to first secretary Lord Mandelson. The business minister said the government had “always
Read More »ID card U-turn under fire
The Home Secretary has come under renewed fire from civil liberties campaigners for distorting the truth about the compulsory introduction of Identity registration. This week new Home Office supremo Alan Johnson backtracked on a
Read More »Minister demands Government stop ID cards
Minister for community safety Fergus Ewing has written to the new UK home secretary Alan Johnson asking for the scheme to be cancelled. He has disputed claims by UK immigration minister Phil Woolas that
Read More »Is the writing on the wall for the Government’s ID card scheme?
Why are we asking this now? The Government had been due to award a key contract as part of its grand biometric ID card scheme this autumn. Three companies – Thales, Fujitsu and
Read More »Companies Warned Not To Sign ID Card Contracts
RINF NEWS The controversial and unpopular ID card scheme, due to be implimented by 2012, might never see the light of day according to the Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Grayling. Mr Grayling has contacted five companies
Read More »ID cards ‘will not protect UK against terrorism’
Lord Steyn will say the controversial scheme is “unnecessary”, un-British and should be scrapped. It comes as a senior Tory attacks the Government for not safeguarding our right to privacy and demand a reversal
Read More »Home Secretary to rethink ID cards
A review of the principles underpinning the government’s £6billion national identity card scheme is among the first orders of Alan Johnston, the new home secretary. Unnamed sources close to Jacqui Smith’s successor confirmed to
Read More »Jacqui Smith departure causes speculation over ID cards
Westminster speculation has raised a new question mark over the future of the government’s flagship identity card scheme, following news of the forthcoming departure of home secretary Jacqui Smith. Smith was one of the
Read More »Council Rejects ID Card Scheme
COUNCIL leaders in Sheffield said they will not allow the city to take part in trials of the Government’s identity card system after Manchester signed up for a pilot project. Sheffield Council leaders will
Read More »Who’s Watching You?
By Anthony Hildebrand | A new BBC series looks at surveillance in the UK. It’s something the industry could learn from, says I4S editor Anthony Hildebrand. Last Monday the BBC broadcast the first in
Read More »10 Things You Might Not Know About ID Cards
The government issued a little-reported document this month on ID cards. It was quietly published when the home secretary Jacqui Smith announced that some volunteer members of the public in Greater Manchester would
Read More »Pointless ID Card project has no flicking point
By John Oates | The Home Office has confirmed there is still no timetable for the rollout of ID card readers, without which carrying out effective ID checks is impossible. So even though the government
Read More »TSSI raises concern over ID card scheme
Identity specialist TSSI has branded the new government-led ID card scheme to launch in Manchester as premature. In a speech made today, (covered in the BBC article ‘Manchester launch for ID cards’) Home Secretary
Read More »National Identity Cards Scheme creep – 4 Draft Orders laid before Parliament under the Identity Cards Act 2006
The Labour Government seem to be intent on their freedom and civil liberties “scorched earth” policy of inflicting the controversial centralised biometric database National Identity Register on us ahead of the General Election. Will
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