biometric passport
Manchester Airport begins biometric ID trial
News The facial recognition technology will be used to verify adult travellers with a UK or European chipped biometric passport by comparing scans with the digital photographs stored on their passports. Manchester Airport has begun a six-month trial of... [20 Aug 2008]
£18m National Identity Register deal awarded
News A prototype of the UK ID card biometric database will be delivered by French firm Thales for £18m. But a spokesman for the Identity and Passport Service said the department had confidence in the system that would be fully functional by the second... [04 Aug 2008]
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. The launch of the site coincides with the publishing of findings of a survey by the Identity and... [09 Jul 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. BAG urged the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) to adopt iris scans as a "fall back", for when... [20 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. Drew Stephenson, York m to replace the Passport system. No wonder an adult 10-year passport is £79 and a child's five-year one is £49. [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. I is for Identity and Passport Service [11 Apr 2008]
ID cards chief defends u-turn
News Anyone renewing or applying for a new passport from 2011 onwards will be required to add their biometric details to the National Identity Register but they won't now be forced to pay for a physical ID card and can instead choose to just use their... [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 Although passport applicants will have to give up their biometric scans for the national register they won't be required to pay £30 (again that's the government's estimate - critics put the cost much higher) for an ID card to go with their £70... [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]
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. I is for Identity and Passport Service Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Click on the links below to find out everything you ever... [26 Feb 2008]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Automated biometric systems will eventually replace the often laborious system of repeated manual passport and security checks that plague fliers today, said Matthew Finn, director of government and security for airline industry IT body Sita. [21 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. I is for Identity and Passport Service A spokesman for the Identity and Passport Service said it made sense to adopt an incremental... [20 Feb 2008]
EU border checks go biometric
News Visitors to Europe will face biometric screening and automated security checks under proposals for a shake-up of EU border controls. Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. [14 Feb 2008]
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