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Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo ID cards will be able to be used to verify a person's identity via the cards' embedded microchip, which will store the cardholder's biographic information, their photograph and a scan of... [30 Jul 2009]
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Comment Urban, educated Indians have a multitude of identification cards provided by the government such as passport, driver's licence, income tax payee card and voter's card. No single ID card is widespread,... [27 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up Meanwhile, the policy train-wreck that is the ID cards scheme got even more painful this week after it was revealed that the scheme to hand out the cards to airport staff has cost the... [24 Jul 2009]
Revealed: £12.4m cost of pilots' ID cards project
News The government has spent millions of pounds on a project to provide airport staff with ID cards - despite doubts over whether any workers will actually take part in the scheme. The scheme, initially... [23 Jul 2009]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News 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 NBIS is used for biometric passports and for the... [13 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment The Home Office CIO speaks to silicon.com's Nick Heath on ID cards, protecting data, and how tech can make a difference The Home Office's role in safeguarding national security means Vernon has oversight... [10 Jul 2009]
'Post Office workers can't spot ID card fraudsters'
News Plans to cut £1bn from the cost of the ID cards project by making people enrol on the high street could be unworkable, after a government report warned the process could be vulnerable to fraud. This is... [08 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News The government has defended itself against fresh calls to drop its troubled ID cards scheme, this time from within the Labour party. The debate follows the Home Secretary's decision last week to make... [07 Jul 2009]
Inbox: ID cards U-turn: The end is nigh?
Comment The government's U-turn on ID cards this week caused readers to reach for their keyboards in force. ID cards U-turn: No compulsory cards for pilots The... [06 Jul 2009]
ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
News ID card costs for the 2009/10 year are projected to reach £50m and hit £1.31bn over the 10-year period to 2019, according to the government's latest Identity Cards Scheme Cost Report, published in May... [01 Jul 2009]
ID cards U-turn: No compulsory cards for pilots
News The government has announced it will drop plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers. Balpa had said it was considering taking legal action against the government if the Home Office continued... [01 Jul 2009]
BT, Intel, Sun team up over identity
News The same situation has led to a proliferation of identity technologies and standards, which often overlap and are often not interoperable, he said, giving SAML, Information Cards and OpenID as examples. [19 Jun 2009]
Tories tell vendors: 'Don't sign ID card contracts'
News The Conservatives have urged a group of technology suppliers not to sign contracts for work related to ID cards, as the party will scrap the scheme if it is elected to power. Damian Green, the shadow... [18 Jun 2009]
And the £400m biometric passport contract goes to…?
News The other deal, a contract to provide the National Biometric Identity Service with a database to support the introduction of biometric passports and ID cards, was awarded to IBM. The government's scheme... [12 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Top of the list is the £5bn ID cards project, the scheme to provide a biometric identity card for UK citizens and foreign nationals in the UK. Johnson takes over the project as the government prepares to... [10 Jun 2009]
