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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. Young people have condemned ID cards as "illegal" and "creepy" on a website to canvas their views. [09 Jul 2008]
Biometrics to fast track 'trusted' travellers
News Biometric technology is to be used to speed up travel between the UK and the US. Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Cheat Sheet: QR codes Working from home Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer [03 Jul 2008]
Experian launches biometric voice ID checks
News Experian has launched a voice biometric hosted ID verification service pitched at customer call centres. The company claims it has the only biometric technology in the world to gain EU certification for advanced digital signatures. [23 Jun 2008]
Warning: ID cards face fingerprint errors
News Suppliers can use whichever biometric they choose in their solution but they will have to show it meets minimum standards and provides cost benefits. Experts have warned the ID card scheme risks being derailed by mistakes in fingerprint matches. [20 Jun 2008]
ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News The report, A Surveillance Society, cautions against the £4.4bn biometric card scheme and associated National Identity Register being used to invade privacy as a result of "function creep". The national ID card database must not be used to turn the... [09 Jun 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. Another familiar topic getting readers hot and bothered this week is ID cards, following the announcement of the shortlisted suppliers for the lucrative IT contracts… [29 May 2008]
Time to bin ID cards?
News CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM, and Thales made the shortlist to win the five parts of the single "framework contract", including a £500m deal to replace the existing passport application system, the £500m biometric fingerprint and photograph database... [23 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. The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 per... [11 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08
Round-Up The campaign is an attack on government plans to take the biometric details of UK citizens for ID cards, starting next year. An elaborate stunt dreamed up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy International is offering a reward for anyone... [11 Apr 2008]
Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints
Photo The campaign is an attack on government plans to take the biometric details of UK citizens for ID cards, starting next year. The elaborate stunt has been dreamt up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy International, who will put up... [07 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up Doing little to dispel the general sense of despair at Heathrow was news the airport has had to temporarily suspend plans to introduce biometric fingerprint checks for domestic passengers travelling through the airport. [28 Mar 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. Anyone renewing or applying for a new passport from 2011 onwards will be required to... [10 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up It’s only gone and announced it is ditching plans that would have forced people to get a biometric ID card when they renew or apply for a passport. The government said it was still planning to force foreign nationals living in Britain to register... [07 Mar 2008]
ID cards are dead
Comment But the big shift in the government's plans is the subtle sidelining of the physical biometric ID card itself. Although passport applicants will have to give up their biometric scans for the national register they won't be required to pay £30... [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. Anyone renewing or applying for a new passport from 2011 onwards will be required to add their biometric details to the... [06 Mar 2008]
