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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]
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... [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]
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]
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]
Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them
News The first UK ID cards have already been issued - but no UK police officers or border guards have any way of reading the data stored on them. The news comes in spite of the first ID... [04 Feb 2009]
Photos: A first glimpse of the ID card
Photo The cards, which will be issued from 25 November, contain eight pieces of information, including two fingerprints and a facial photo scan, which are stored on a chip at its rear. Here is Home Secretary Jacqui Smith... [25 Sep 2008]
First 50,000 ID cards issued in November
News The government has revealed it will produce an initial run of 50,000 ID cards before ramping up production in April 2009. The government has yet to put a figure on how many ID... [09 Sep 2008]
