ID cards
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News It also collected six complete new malware packages while recovering data on more than 100,000 credit cards. They agreed and the FBI now had hosted one of the world's biggest one-stop shops for conducting... [23 Apr 2009]
Inbox: Chip and PIN latest big IDea - and still no readers
Comment ID cards to remain unreadable until next year ID cards: still with unreadable chips but with added chip and PIN? The UK will have no way of reading the data stored on... [20 Apr 2009]
Chip and PIN for ID cards: Not such a sharp idea?
News The government has proposed adding chip and PIN capabilities to ID cards but questions remain over whether such a move would be beneficial - or even possible - at this late stage in the £4.7bn project. [15 Apr 2009]
The A to Z of ID cards
News With the first ID cards issued in 2008 the government is determined to push ahead with the rollout of the controversial cards to the UK public. The project is moving on apace, with... [15 Apr 2009]
£650m ID card biometrics: IBM and CSC win contracts
News IBM and CSC have been awarded contracts to run some of the technology behind the government's ID cards and passports schemes. The NBIS database will feed into the National Identity Register, the database... [08 Apr 2009]
ID cards to remain unreadable until next year
News The UK will have no way of reading the data stored on ID cards until next year - more than a year after the first cards were issued. The ID cards' chips... [07 Apr 2009]
Gov't watchdog reveals first ID card worries
News While ID cards became compulsory for some categories of foreign nationals last year, they are currently optional for the general public. Another risk to the ID cards... [20 Mar 2009]
Drunk Facebook pics, iPlayer, BT and outsourcing hotspots
News February started with a silicon.com exclusive that discovered UK police officers and border guards had no way of reading the information stored on ID cards' chips. Exclusive: ID... [05 Mar 2009]
Aviva insures datacentre future with £700m deal
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Galileo CRM Biometrics Insurance giant Aviva has signed a £700m, 10-year deal with EDS to manage its... [03 Mar 2009]
Suppressed ID card reports 'must be made public'
News Reviews of the controversial ID cards project are to be published after the government lost a four-year-long battle to keep them secret. The two independent Gateway Reviews into the likely success of the... [20 Feb 2009]
Pilots want to put the brakes on ID card plan
News Pilots are willing to lose their jobs rather than accept an ID card, Balpa told the Home Office in response to consultation over the introduction of the cards, that finished on Friday 13... [16 Feb 2009]
Home Office to widen ID card grasp?
News The Home Office has made a formal request to Parliament to increase the scope of ID cards for foreign nationals. The government has consistently claimed that ID cards... [13 Feb 2009]
Beware - Big Brother is watching you get drunk
Comment And second, silicon.com's exclusive story that ID cards are unreadable at present got readers well and truly riled. Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read... [10 Feb 2009]
UK is Big Brother capital of the world say Lords
News At the same time national databases designed to hold personal information on nearly every UK citizen are being set up across Whitehall, from the NHS Care Records Service to the ID cards National Identity... [06 Feb 2009]
EU: No common protection scheme for ID card data
News European Union members lack a co-ordinated strategy on how to protect citizen data linked to ID cards, according to an EU agency. While the first UK ID cards have been... [06 Feb 2009]
