biometric passport
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 cards and second generation... [23 Jul 2009]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News In April, IBM was awarded the contract to administer the National Biometric Identity Service (NBIS) database, which will hold identifying information such as facial images and fingerprints. The NBIS is used for... [13 Jul 2009]
'Post Office workers can't spot ID card fraudsters'
News The Home Office had hoped biometric enrolment for cards would take place in Post Offices, but this could be thrown into doubt by a report by the Business and Enterprise Committee that found "many or even most identity... [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]
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. An Identity and Passport Service spokesperson said that... [05 May 2009]
The A to Z of ID cards
News This would mean that anyone applying for a passport or driving licence would have their biometric and personal information logged on the NIR. It also means the public will face an additional cost to... [15 Apr 2009]
£650m ID card biometrics: IBM and CSC win contracts
News No government department staff aside from the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) will be able to access either the biometric or biographical details, the source added. On Tuesday, the Home Office... [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]
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]
Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them
News Currently no police stations, border entry points or job centres have readers for the card's biometric chip, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) revealed in response to an FoI (Freedom of... [04 Feb 2009]
FCO deal gets emergency passports travelling quicker
News The new system will even transmit the biometric ID that is captured in the one-sheet emergency document. It will then be integrated with the full passport system in the UK. When people discover they are... [02 Feb 2009]
"Please give me an ID card" say UK citizens
News Over the last two years, 1,142 out of 3,073 pieces of correspondence to government on the biometric cards have been classified as "wants an ID card", according to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. Smith also said that the... [22 Dec 2008]
ID cards: Rely on 'visual check' as biometrics unreadable
News The first UK ID cards will be of limited use for full biometric ID checks on foreign workers, with the government yet to reveal a timetable for the deployment of scanners capable of reading the cards. [25 Nov 2008]
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