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News Young people have condemned ID cards as "illegal" and "creepy" on a website to canvas their views. O is for Other cards Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Feedback from the site will be put towards tailoring the biometric card to suit young people's... [09 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News A to Z of ID Cards O is for Other cards The IPS is also responsible for delivering the ID cards scheme, which will be rolled out over the next four years, starting with about 10 million "critical" workers in 2009, young people in 2010 and the rest... [02 Jul 2008]
ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News The Home Affairs Committee report says the ID cards scheme should not become a "surveillance tool" and demands stronger assurances about the government's ability to protect information in the wake of government data loss scandals. [09 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Rural v City fat pipe row and ID cards
Comment 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… ID cards Time to bin ID cards? The people who can fake passports nowadays will... [29 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'
Comment This week, readers had a thing or two to say about the Home Office consultancy bill and were not best pleased by the mounting cost of ID cards. ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill The consultants are just giving the answers the Home Office bigwigs... [17 Apr 2008]
Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release
News O is for Other cards Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards H is for Home Office The matter was sent to the High Court after the Office of Government Commerce appealed a decision by the tribunal to uphold a decision by the Information Commissioner to... [14 Apr 2008]
ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill
News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards O is for Other cards The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 per cent hike in the cost of Home Office consultants - taking the bill up to £147m last year. Home Office spending on consultants shot up from... [11 Apr 2008]
ID cards chief defends u-turn
News The head of Britain's ID cards project and national identity database has defended the government's revised ID card plans in the face of allegations of a u-turn after the project was scaled back. James Hall, director of the Identity and Passport... [10 Mar 2008]
ID card u-turn by government
News Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is also expected to reveal today that any Parliamentary vote to make ID cards compulsory for British citizens will now be delayed until 2015. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards [06 Mar 2008]
ID cards: Gov't slaps on fines of up to £1,000
News The Home Office documents predict the cards will be fitted with a "tamperproof chip" containing encrypted information, which would include the holder's face, two fingerprints, personal details and immigration status. [26 Feb 2008]
ID cards plan: Airport union wants answers
News Foreign nationals coming to the UK will be given cards from the end of this year and the Home Office is expected to announce details within weeks of which category of migrants will be required to have a card. [20 Feb 2008]
ID cards? One in four says no!
News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Opponents of the ID card scheme said the survey of just over 1,000 people, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, showed the government would be "unable to impose" the cards on the population. [06 Feb 2008]
ID cards: What's the latest?
News ID cards will be secure, insists Home Office Government plans to introduce ID cards have taken another battering recently, with suggestions of delays to their introduction and suppliers pulling out of the procurement process. [29 Jan 2008]
Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards
News The system has been criticised this week following revelations in leaked draft Home Office documents that the widespread rollout of ID cards could be pushed back to 2012 and that teenagers could be required to have the cards to open a bank account. [25 Jan 2008]
Students revolt against being ID card guinea pigs
News Leaked Home Office documents reveal teenagers may need an ID card to open a bank account or take out a student loan from 2010 - making them among the first people to have the controversial biometric cards in the UK. [24 Jan 2008]
