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Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo ID cards will be able to be used to verify a person's identity via the cards' embedded microchip, which will store the cardholder's biographic information, their photograph and a scan of two of their fingerprints. [30 Jul 2009]
'Post Office workers can't spot ID card fraudsters'
News The cost of providing ID cards and biometric passports over the next 10 years has been reduced to £5bn on the basis that people would scan their fingerprints and facial photographs in high street outlets, which also... [08 Jul 2009]
The A to Z of ID cards
News The original plan was to use 13 biometrics: 10 fingerprints, both irises and the face. The ID cards will electronically store two fingerprints and a photograph on a built-in microchip, while the National... [15 Apr 2009]
ID cards on driving licences - 'law can't stop us'
News Each ID card, expected to cost £30, will contain a chip holding a scan of a person's face and two of their fingerprints, which can be checked against a facial scan and set of 10 fingerprints held on the... [21 Oct 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]
ID cards face student scorn
News She said the two fingerprints and photograph stored on the card would provide greater protection against identity theft and help fight illegal working, immigration abuse and serious crime. C is for... [09 Jul 2008]
ID cards are dead
Comment The genius in that plan is to make the private sector pay for the biometric enrolment centres where people will have to queue up to have their fingerprints and irises scanned for the national identity register. [07 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 rollout pushed back to 2012
News Biometric passports were introduced on schedule in 2006 but the spokesman said it was reviewing the date for the introduction of the second generation biometric passport, which would include fingerprints. [23 Jan 2008]
ID cards to cost more than £5.6bn
News The cost of a passport is set to increase substantially over the next five years to cover the cost of larger electronic chips that will hold more data and fingerprints, according to a separate report by a parliamentary... [09 Nov 2007]
Blair slams ID cards critics
News Blair said ID cards will boost the crime detection rate by allowing police to compare almost one million outstanding crime scene fingerprints against those held centrally on the NIR. From 2008, ID cards will be... [07 Nov 2006]
New ID cards agency set up after Queen approves bill
News But the compromise means that those who choose to opt out will still have to pay for the ID card - and have their fingerprints, iris scans and personal details taken and stored on the national identity register (NIR)... [31 Mar 2006]
Oxford Co-ops test fingerprint payments
News Laird added that a small number of customers had expressed concerns about whether their fingerprints would be made available to outside agencies. The Co-op is trialling the system in response to customers' anxieties over... [08 Mar 2006]
Biometrics: 'People don't mind them'
News Just over two-thirds of the US consumers polled said they were open to the idea of using biometric information - such as digital fingerprints and iris scanning - to verify their identity. The use of biometrics has been a... [10 Nov 2004]
£35 biometric ID card charge may be scrapped
News Meanwhile, mobile trials of the government's biometric ID card scheme will get underway this week starting in Macclesfield, where people can register their fingerprints, facial scans and irises. This hasn't deterred Home... [02 Aug 2004]
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