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Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo The rear of the card is embedded with the microchip that stores the cardholder's biographic and biometric information. The card holds similar biographic and biometric... [30 Jul 2009]
Revealed: £12.4m cost of pilots' ID cards project
News Spending on the wider ID cards project was revealed in the IPS accounts, which showed the IPS spent £85.1m on developing tech for the National Identity Scheme, which includes tech to support both ID... [23 Jul 2009]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News This contract will provide a secure database for storing facial and fingerprint images for the next generation of biometric passports and will support the delivery of the National Identity card," said... [13 Jul 2009]
'Post Office workers can't spot ID card fraudsters'
News The cost of providing ID cards and biometric passports over the next 10 years has been reduced to £5bn on the basis that people would scan their fingerprints and facial photographs in high street... [08 Jul 2009]
Tories tell vendors: 'Don't sign ID card contracts'
News Grayling's letter referred to two ID scheme-related contracts: one given to CSC to upgrade passport application systems, and another given to IBM to supply the biometric database. The programme to... [18 Jun 2009]
And the £400m biometric passport contract goes to…?
News The biometric passports are part of a wider government strategy which also encompasses an ID card scheme. The other deal, a contract to provide the National Biometric... [12 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Top of the list is the £5bn ID cards project, the scheme to provide a biometric identity card for UK citizens and foreign nationals in the UK. Question marks around the project include... [10 Jun 2009]
ID cards head for the high street
News Figures released today also revealed that the projected cost of producing ID cards and biometric passports for UK citizens over the next 10 years is £4.9bn, up £175m on previous forecasts. Under the... [06 May 2009]
ID cards: "massive drop" in public confidence, says Blunkett
News A single document combining a compulsory biometric passport with a driving licence would be more popular, according to Blunkett. The Home Secretary announced last year that as the National Identity Service rolls out in... [05 May 2009]
Inbox: Chip and PIN latest big IDea - and still no readers
Comment So 49 items of personal information, your life history and your biometric data are not judged to be secure methods of verifying your identity anymore? And this is mainly because no one outside government can access... [20 Apr 2009]
The A to Z of ID cards
News In February 2009 it was revealed there was no way of reading ID cards, despite tens of thousands of cards being made available to foreign nationals since November 2008.silicon.com revealed the fact that no police... [15 Apr 2009]
£650m ID card biometrics: IBM and CSC win contracts
News On Tuesday, the Home Office announced that IBM had won a £265m contract to build and run the UK Border Agency database of fingerprints and facial images taken for passports and visa applications, called the National... [08 Apr 2009]
ID cards to remain unreadable until next year
News In February silicon.com revealed that no police stations, border entry points or job centres have readers for the cards' biometric chips - in spite of 22,500 cards having been issued to foreign nationals since November... [07 Apr 2009]
£8.5bn: Local government's outsourcing bill
News In central government, the largest outsourcing deals set to be signed this year feature the ID card scheme, including the application and enrolment contract and the national biometric... [18 Mar 2009]
Home Office to widen ID card grasp?
News Until now, only students and foreign nationals applying to stay in the UK on the basis of marriage have been obliged to have the biometric cards. The spokesperson added that the biometric and personal... [13 Feb 2009]
