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RSS IDSony launches massive Vaio recall
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Galileo CRM Biometrics Sony is recalling about 438,000 Vaio TZ-series notebooks worldwide that may overheat... [05 Sep 2008]
Microsoft: Google lags 'years behind' on privacy
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Cheat Sheet: QR codes Working from home Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the Redmond... [01 Sep 2008]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment Yet another very good reason to join No2ID and absolutely refuse to provide any information to do with ID cards, which will only be: 'Identity theft sponsored by G Brown'. I hope so as I don't really want to go to prison for not having an ID card… [28 Aug 2008]
Prisoner data breach firm paid £100m
News A recent Home Office response to another ID cards related FoI enquiry shows the department spent a total of £31.6m on external consultants' services for the ID cards project between the financial years 2003/04 and 2005/06. [22 Aug 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.08.08
Round-Up The billions they proposed spending on ID cards were a terrible waste of taxpayers' money but that plan, at least for the time being, seems to have fallen by the political wayside. There's a row brewing in Whitehall and just for a change it has... [22 Aug 2008]
Home Office loses data on 84,000 prisoners
News PA Consulting - which is also working with the Home Office on the government's ID cards scheme: back in 2004 it was selected to help with design, feasibility testing, business and procurement elements for ID cards - said in a statement: "We are... [22 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Bordering on stupidity
Comment Take that old paper passport and add some electronics to turn it into a super-secure means of ID and certification. A to Z of ID Cards Written in a coffee shop in Mountain View CA and dispatched the next day from a free wi-fi service in the hotel. [21 Aug 2008]
Manchester Airport begins biometric ID trial
News These checks make up just one part of Britain's triple ring of security, alongside fingerprint visas for three-quarters of the world's population, and the roll-out of ID cards for foreign nationals locking people to one identity. [20 Aug 2008]
Firefox 3.1 coming soon?
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Cheat Sheet: QR codes Working from home Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Developers working on the next version of Firefox aim to release a beta to... [07 Aug 2008]
£18m National Identity Register deal awarded
News A prototype of the UK ID card biometric database will be delivered by French firm Thales for £18m. The defence contractor will design, build, test and operate an early version of the National Identity Register (NIR) and ID card application system... [04 Aug 2008]
QoS Guaranteed Secure Network Service Realization Using Global User Management Framework (GUMF) - Service Security Model for Privacy
White Paper GUMF offers anonymity for user of service and use the user's real-name or ID for management of service and it is technology that can realize secure QoS. GUMF (Global User Management Framework) that is proposed in this research can be applied to... [04 Aug 2008]
Google Street View cleared by UK privacy watchdog
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Galileo CRM Biometrics Google's Street View mapping system has been given the all clear by the UK's privacy... [31 Jul 2008]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News While the Home Office claims that "high tech checks" render the blank ePassports useless, privacy experts say they could be used to fool everyday ID checks, for limited travel abroad or be fitted with cloned chips. [29 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment In that light ID cards don't seem such a bad idea - why should they be? Over the past few years we've had some feverish debate about ID cards. Our lives would clearly be much better if more information were held. [21 Jul 2008]
Microsoft widens its Live Mesh web
News Microsoft has opened up its Live Mesh service to anyone who has (or signs up for) a Windows Live ID. Microsoft said: "The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that anyone in the US can now use Live Mesh just by signing in to www.mesh.com with a... [18 Jul 2008]
