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News From 2009, all EU passports will feature a digital fingerprint and photograph and, from 2011 non-EU citizens who apply for a visa will have to give their biometric details. Under plans to strengthen checks at European borders laid out by the... [14 Feb 2008]
ID cards? One in four says no!
News P is for Passports According to the ICM poll, 25 per cent of those surveyed thought it was a "very bad" idea - up from 17 per cent in September last year. Opponents of the ID card scheme said the survey of just over 1,000 people, commissioned by... [06 Feb 2008]
silicon.com Classics: 'Nigerian' money scam - What happens when you reply?
News All he needed, of course, was some money to cover 'administrative costs' and bank account details and photocopies of passports and other ID documents. In the first of a new weekly series looking back at the classic silicon.com stories of the last... [04 Feb 2008]
ID cards: What's the latest?
News P is for Passports Government plans to introduce ID cards have taken another battering recently, with suggestions of delays to their introduction and suppliers pulling out of the procurement process. Confused about where it's going? [29 Jan 2008]
Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards
News P is for Passports The first contracts to be awarded will be for the replacement of the core application and enrolment processes for passports, together with the provision of desktop infrastructure for the Identity and Passport Service. [25 Jan 2008]
Students revolt against being ID card guinea pigs
News P is for Passports Students have launched a stinging attack on UK government proposals to make young people "guinea pigs" for ID cards. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about... [24 Jan 2008]
Norwegian Cruise-Ferry Company Explores the Business Benefits of a Unified Network Solution From Nortel Networks
White Paper Additionally with the installation of the Nortel Networks Passports connecting all ships with high speed communications, Color Line was able to combine voice and data communications on to one network with immediate cost savings and cost... [23 Jan 2008]
ID cards rollout pushed back to 2012
News The Home Office insists the project is on track despite an earlier action plan pledge that cards would be issued in "significant" numbers to those renewing their passports from 2010. Biometric passports were introduced on schedule in 2006 but the... [23 Jan 2008]
MoD admits to more laptop thefts
News Names, passports details, national insurance numbers, drivers' licence details, information on family, doctors' addresses and NHS numbers were included on the Royal Navy laptop stolen on 9 January. The Ministry of Defence has had two further... [22 Jan 2008]
Stolen MoD laptop contains 600,000 records
News Names, passports details, national insurance numbers, drivers' licence details, information on family, doctors' addresses and NHS numbers were included on the laptop. A Ministry of Defence (MoD) laptop containing personal data about 600,000 people... [21 Jan 2008]
PM: Parliament to decide ID cards fate
News The Identity Cards Act 2006 already allows for ID cards to be registered and issued as people apply for official documents such as passports and immigration documents, although nobody will be able to apply for a separate card until 2009. [10 Jan 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News UK passports face massive price hike The manufacturers could only guarantee the chips for two years, even though the passports are supposed to be issued for 10. The year was dominated by stories about government-held personal data, whether that was... [19 Dec 2007]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment Ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable to have a society where bank cards had been replaced by iris identification, where passports were a thing of the past and school dinners were paid for using vein recognition. [23 Nov 2007]
ID cards to cost more than £5.6bn
News P is for Passports A £5.43bn price tag covers the total resource costs of providing both ePassports and ID cards to British and Irish citizens resident in the UK for October 2007 to October 2017, with £245m being spent on the set-up and £5.185bn on... [09 Nov 2007]
ID cards will be secure, insists Home Office
News P is for Passports The Home Office has defended the UK ID cards scheme after security expert Frank Abagnale - a one-time confidence trickster made famous by the Steven Spielberg film, Catch Me If You Can - said the scheme should be scrapped if the... [25 Oct 2007]
