ID cards
RSS ID cardsOlympics tickets to double as Tube tickets, cash?
News The London 2012 Olympics could be set to pioneer smart tickets that double up as contactless payment and Oyster cards. Visa has already announced that it hopes large areas of the UK will have shops with readers for... [29 May 2009]
Inbox: Brits ditching mobiles? Fat chance
Comment This week: Brits ditching their mobiles, pilots bailing out on ID cards, smart metering and speed-limiting tech all topped the list for readers' rants. Pilots to bail out on ID... [18 May 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.05.09
Round-Up Just as the opposition parties have promised to bin the ID cards scheme, the government has announced plans to put part of the responsibility for creating the high security cards in the... [08 May 2009]
Pilots to bail out on ID cards
News The majority of pilots in the UK do not want ID cards and will fight plans to force them onto air crews. A survey of 10,000 pilots by the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) found 60 per cent were... [08 May 2009]
ID cards, Oracle, iPlayer and how to save your job...
News ID cards, Oracle's move for Sun and the ever-interesting issue of how to keep hold of your job were three of the biggest stories on silicon.com in April. This month silicon.com's refreshed A to Z of... [08 May 2009]
ID cards head for the high street
News The Post Office, pharmacists and photography shops are in talks to scan photos and fingerprints for ID cards. Figures released today also revealed that the projected cost of producing ID... [06 May 2009]
Manchester public will get first UK ID cards
News I have come across very few people who see the benefits of [ID cards] and even fewer people who will choose to spend money on ID cards at a time when the country is... [06 May 2009]
ID cards: "massive drop" in public confidence, says Blunkett
News MP David Blunkett, architect of the National Identity Scheme, has said there has been a "massive drop" in public confidence in ID cards. For at least three years after we announced [ID... [05 May 2009]
Cross-border policing to take down digital crims
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]
