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Photos: Scots are sQuids in with wave and pay
Photo The scheme, under the Scottish National Entitlement Card (NEC) programme aims to distribute pre-loadable wave and pay cards to Scottish citizens for purchases of £10 and under. Dundee City Council has... [23 Jan 2009]
Digital wallet card launches in Dundee
News The scheme, run in partnership with the Scottish National Entitlement Card (NEC) programme, is scheduled to go live by October. Dundee City Council is set to launch the sQuid eMoney service with the distribution of... [02 Sep 2008]
ID card benefits were exaggerated, admits government
News We did suggest, or at least implied, that they may well be a panacea for identity fraud, for benefit fraud, terrorism, entitlement and access to public services. The UK government has admitted that it exaggerated the... [04 Aug 2005]
ID Cards on Trial: Minister defends "robust" biometrics
News The notion of a universal entitlement card to access any public service is certainly not the case," he said. The Home Office has once again rounded on critics of the ID card scheme and dismissed concerns that biometric... [07 Jun 2005]
ID Cards on Trial: A new silicon.com campaign
News The stated aims have changed many times since it was first touted as an 'entitlement' card by David Blunkett. silicon.com is today launching a campaign to lobby the government for greater transparency over the £5.8bn... [06 Jun 2005]
Biometrics: Your questions answered
Comment Mindful of potential opposition to them, David Blunkett first proposed a national 'entitlement' card back in early 2002, saying it most definitely wasn't an ID card. Andy McCue, senior reporter at silicon.com and member... [20 Aug 2004]
Compulsory biometric ID on the cards
News The government will have the power to mandate that an ID card is produced to use certain public services - an element retained from Blunkett's original 'entitlement' card plans. Compulsory biometric ID... [26 Nov 2003]
ID cards: Blunkett ignores online public opinion
News A consultation on the issue ended in January 2003, and after months of procrastinating the Home Office eventually revealed that nearly 5,000 people had registered their opposition to the introduction of ID cards - or... [13 Nov 2003]
Blunkett's ID card plans key to e-government?
News As no decision has been made on the entitlement card issue, smart card schemes in the UK may wish to look beyond ID as a core function in order to explore the potential they have to offer. Home Secretary David Blunkett... [31 Jul 2003]
ID card row gets nasty
News The government was accused on Thursday of playing dirty politics after it refused to disclose the fate of almost 6,000 responses to last year's consultation on entitlement cards. Most of these... [05 Jun 2003]
Blunkett presses ahead with national biometric ID card plan
News A public consultation on what the government is calling 'Entitlement' cards ended on 31 January this year and received over 2,000 responses. Home Secretary David Blunkett has revealed he wants to present... [23 May 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Who am I?
Comment The concept of compulsory national ID or entitlement cards (choose name as you see fit) has split public opinion. Of course ID cards and other documents all suffer from the problem that... [22 Apr 2003]
ID theft - very 21st century, very serious
Comment The big debate on entitlement cards isn't just about civil liberties and streamlining services - when push comes to shove they should be a way of proving who you are. With these they acquire new credit... [26 Feb 2003]
Data watchdog voices 'big brother' concerns over ID cards
News The UK's Information Commissioner believes the government's proposals for a national entitlement card are so widely drawn that "it is impossible to conclude that the necessary privacy and data protection safeguards will... [13 Feb 2003]
Privacy group attacks government over ID cards
News Civil liberties group Privacy International lodged a complaint of maladministration with the parliamentary ombudsman on Thursday against the government over its handling of the consultation into entitlement... [31 Jan 2003]
