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ID cards face student scorn
News Feedback from the site will be put towards tailoring the biometric card to suit young people's needs when they are offered the cards from 2010. C is for Compulsory People aged 16 to 25 have been using the site MyLifeMyID.org, launched today, to... [09 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Rural v City fat pipe row and ID cards
Comment There really is no need to go through the whole biometric ID business. If it was compulsory to carry (as in many countries) this would serve most of the stated aims of the project. Another familiar topic getting readers hot and bothered this week... [29 May 2008]
ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill
News The government plans to start taking the first biometric details from UK citizens for its National Identity Register scheme next year but has delayed the mass roll-out of the scheme until 2015. C is for Compulsory [11 Apr 2008]
ID cards chief defends u-turn
News Foreign nationals living in Britain will have to register their biometric details on the National Identity Register and carry an ID card by the end of this year. Biometric data for the cards is likely to be captured by private companies with people... [10 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up The government said it was still planning to force foreign nationals living in Britain to register their biometric details on the National Identity Register and carry an ID card by the end of the year. [07 Mar 2008]
ID card u-turn by government
News A government u-turn has ditched plans to force people to get a biometric ID card when they renew or apply for a passport. But the government still intends to force foreign nationals living in Britain to register their biometric details on the... [06 Mar 2008]
ID cards: Gov't slaps on fines of up to £1,000
News The latest government ID card plans have revealed people will face fines of up to £1,000 for skipping biometric scans. C is for Compulsory Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know... [26 Feb 2008]
ID cards plan: Airport union wants answers
News And the union said it wants to make sure workers will not shoulder the projected £93 cost of the biometric card. C is for Compulsory Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. [20 Feb 2008]
ID cards: What's the latest?
News The project has never been far from the pages of silicon.com - so here's the pick of our coverage on the government's biometric identity scheme. C is for Compulsory Government plans to introduce ID cards have taken another battering recently, with... [29 Jan 2008]
Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards
News Two major IT suppliers have pulled out of the bidding for lucrative contracts to build the systems underpinning the UK's national biometric ID card project. Both Accenture and BAE Systems have withdrawn from the procurement process for contracts to... [25 Jan 2008]
Students revolt against being ID card guinea pigs
News Leaked Home Office documents reveal teenagers may need an ID card to open a bank account or take out a student loan from 2010 - making them among the first people to have the controversial biometric cards in the UK. [24 Jan 2008]
ID cards rollout pushed back to 2012
News Biometric passports were introduced on schedule in 2006 but the spokesman said it was reviewing the date for the introduction of the second generation biometric passport, which would include fingerprints. [23 Jan 2008]
Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas
News All applicants for visas to enter the UK will face biometric fingerprint checks from the end of this month. B is for Behavioural biometric Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. [14 Jan 2008]
ID cards will be secure, insists Home Office
News The Home Office spokesman added: "No one is saying the scheme will be a panacea but by linking unique biometric information - initially face, fingerprint and possibly in future iris too - to one set of biographical information will make the use of... [25 Oct 2007]
£31m pumped into ID card project
News More than 4.8 million biometric passports have also been dished out during the last financial year, with the IPS posting a deficit of £2.1m on its passport services - which is lower than the planned deficit of £15m, the report reveals. [30 Jul 2007]
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