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ID card 'will drown in a billion mismatches'
News The Home Office refuted allegations that the scheme would be swamped with false matches, citing the example of two already operational schemes larger than the ID card - the FBI's fingerprint database with more than 50... [26 Sep 2008]
One million ID cards every year from 2009
News The Home Office is trialling fingerprint enrolment for foreign nationals and has taken 12,000 fingerprints to date, which the Home Secretary said has resulted in four convictions and "a lot of examples of ID... [25 Sep 2008]
Scottish gov't enlists data privacy experts
News Some Scottish schools are using fingerprint- and palm-scanning technologies to establish cafeteria payment systems, attendance records and school library borrowing. It will cover services that use IT, such as online... [11 Sep 2008]
Manchester Airport begins biometric ID trial
News These checks make up just one part of Britain's triple ring of security, alongside fingerprint visas for three-quarters of the world's population, and the roll-out of ID cards for foreign nationals... [20 Aug 2008]
£18m National Identity Register deal awarded
News ID cards: Latest news ID cards face student scorn ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers Warning: ID cards face... [04 Aug 2008]
Biometrics to fast track 'trusted' travellers
News Fingerprint, iris and facial recognition technology will be used to speed up frequent travellers' journeys through immigration control, as part of a UK-US agreement for a fast-travel option for trusted travellers going... [03 Jul 2008]
Warning: ID cards face fingerprint errors
News Experts have warned the ID card scheme risks being derailed by mistakes in fingerprint matches. The £4.4bn National Identity Scheme's (NIS) preference for relying on fingerprint and facial recognition... [20 Jun 2008]
ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News You do not know which shops are owned by the Mafia but if you end up having to put your fingerprint on the glass every time that you buy a can of Coke, sooner or later the Mafia will have the biometrics of millions of... [09 Jun 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... [23 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08
Round-Up The truly ambitious might also want to try and fingerprint him while he's actually making a speech, which again might prove a tough challenge given that, first, he waves his arms about a lot and second, he'd probably... [11 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up Doing little to dispel the general sense of despair at Heathrow was news the airport has had to temporarily suspend plans to introduce biometric fingerprint checks for domestic passengers travelling through the airport. [28 Mar 2008]
ID card u-turn by government
News The penalties range from £125 for not notifying the government of the loss of an ID card, to £250 for not applying for a card or missing an appointment for fingerprint and facial scans. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID... [06 Mar 2008]
ID cards: Gov't slaps on fines of up to £1,000
News Penalties ranging from £125 for not notifying the government of the loss of an ID card, to £250 for not applying for a card or missing an appointment for fingerprint and facial scans, were revealed in the Home Office... [26 Feb 2008]
Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards
News And also the replacement and upgrading of systems for fingerprint matching and storage in connection with immigration and visa requirements and transition to the replacement service. The system has been criticised this... [25 Jan 2008]
Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas
News All applicants for visas to enter the UK will face biometric fingerprint checks from the end of this month. The fingerprint database contains the records of more than one million previous visa... [14 Jan 2008]
