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A Trust Infrastructure for ePassports: Building Reliable, Timely and Cost-Effective Trust Links for Electronic Travel Document Verification
White Paper Citizens, no matter in what part of the world, seek a certain level of trust from their government when it comes to the protection of their personal identities and information. Whether it's driver's or professional licenses, birth... [14 May 2009]
ID card costs rise - but is the security weakening?
News The Identity and Passport Service has issued more than 12 million ePassports to date and nobody has successfully cloned the chip," the spokesman said. Opponents of ID cards have renewed their attacks on the scheme,... [07 Nov 2008]
One million ID cards every year from 2009
News More than 12.5 million of the first generation biometric ePassports have been issued in the last two years. Smith attacked the Conservatives for their plans to drop ID cards, saying they were "turning their backs on the... [25 Sep 2008]
'Uncloneable' biometric passports pass the test
News The UK was one of 27 countries that took part in the tests of RFID chips and passport readers for second generation ePassports.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics The tests demonstrated that it was possible for different... [22 Sep 2008]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment Two fallacies about ePassports as touted by politicians: The data encryption method is known and a huge pile of blank, genuine ePassports went missing recently, anyone else believe they aren't being... [28 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Bordering on stupidity
Comment In the case of ePassports there needs to be at least an online database augmentation of the information contained in the embedded chips, and in addition, some form of PIN, password, phrase and/or picture choice known... [21 Aug 2008]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News The thousands of UK ePassports stolen on Monday are likely to sell for up to £20m on the black market, say privacy experts. A van carrying about 3,000 blank ePassports and visas was hijacked on route to... [29 Jul 2008]
ID cards to cost more than £5.6bn
News The previous cost report - released in May 2007 - projected costs from April 2007 to April 2017 of the ID cards and ePassports scheme to be more than £5.5bn. A £5.43bn price tag covers the total resource costs of... [09 Nov 2007]
UK passports face massive price hike
News But a report by parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warns the cost could increase even more with the introduction of the second generation ePassports in 2009.silicon.com's A to Z of... [10 Oct 2007]
Gov trumpets ePassports successes
News The government has pointed to the successes of its ePassports scheme, claiming 4,000 ineligible visa applications have been blocked due to biometric checks. Speaking at a Westminster eForum, Stephen Harrison, director of... [13 Jul 2007]
ID cards to cost more than £5.5bn
News The cost of providing ePassports and ID cards to UK citizens for the period between April 2007 and April 2017 is estimated to be £5.55bn, according to the government's Identity Cards Scheme Cost Report May 2007. [10 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: Olympics as tech showcase?
Comment for the new ePassports now rolled out in the UK - the passports are meant to last 10 years but the chips inside them storing all manner of data have only been guaranteed for two. I've written and read a lot in the past... [07 Feb 2007]
ePassports come in on budget - though with 'chip gap'
News The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has completed the launch of ePassports on time and on budget but question marks still surround several aspects of the project, including how defective chips on the electronic... [06 Feb 2007]
ID card mega-database ditched
News For the Public Key Infrastructure information related to the secure use and issue of ID cards, the plan is to build on existing systems used to issue ePassports which currently rely on facial biometrics. [19 Dec 2006]
ID card procurement timetable revealed
News The Home Office, however, was forced to defend the security of the new ePassports and ID cards today after a security expert and Guardian newspaper journalist hacked one of the encrypted chips on the new high-tech... [17 Nov 2006]
