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Nandan Nilekani
AS Profile But this year Nilekani will embark on what is arguably his toughest challenge yet, delivering biometric ID cards to every one of India's 1.2 billion population. As head of the government's unique... [30 Sep 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo The cost of providing the cards and biometric passports for UK citizens over the next 10 years will be £5bn. The rear of the card is embedded with the microchip that stores the cardholder's biographic and... [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 The NBIS is used for biometric passports and for the National Identity Register (NIR), which will be used in issuing ID cards under the government scheme. In April, IBM was awarded the contract to... [13 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment People think we have one giant database but we have one that holds the biographic details, one that holds the biometric details and also a data store for the PKI [public key infrastructure] details. While it would be... [10 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 other deal, a contract to provide the National Biometric Identity Service with a database to support the introduction of biometric passports and ID cards, was awarded to IBM. The... [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. Following a week of political turmoil culminating in a... [10 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.05.09
Round-Up The bright idea is that customers will be able to use the high street outlets to scan their fingerprints and facial photographs that will be stored on microchips in the cards or biometric visas and the central National... [08 May 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. MP David Blunkett, architect of the National Identity Scheme, has said there has been a... [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? ID cards: still with unreadable chips but with added... [20 Apr 2009]
The A to Z of ID cards
News The government hopes to help cut the projected cost of the ID cards scheme for UK citizens from £5.6bn to £4.7bn by outsourcing the collecting of biometric details to high street businesses. In February... [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]
