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News Thousands of fingerprints will be made available under the reciprocal deal (Photo credit: williac via Flickr.com under the following Creative Commons licence) The government has announced a fingerprint sharing deal,... [24 Aug 2009]
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... [30 Jul 2009]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News In April, IBM was awarded the contract to administer the National Biometric Identity Service (NBIS) database, which will hold identifying information such as facial images and fingerprints. IBM's contract to supply... [13 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... [08 Jul 2009]
And the £400m biometric passport contract goes to…?
News The other deal, a contract to provide the National Biometric Identity Service with a database to support the introduction of biometric passports and ID cards, was awarded to IBM. The biometric passports are part of a... [12 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.05.09
Round-Up The Post Office, pharmacists and photography shops are in talks to scan photos and fingerprints for the ID cards scheme under new plans. The bright idea is that customers will be able to use the high... [08 May 2009]
ID cards head for the high street
News The Post Office, pharmacists and photography shops are in talks to scan photos and fingerprints for ID cards. Under the plans customers will be able to use the high street outlets to scan their... [06 May 2009]
Cross-border policing to take down digital crims
News He estimated that as much as 70 per cent of the spam now sent over the internet bears the fingerprints of Russian cybercriminals. They agreed and the FBI now had hosted one of the world's biggest one-stop shops for... [23 Apr 2009]
The A to Z of ID cards
News The ID cards will electronically store two fingerprints and a photograph on a built-in microchip, while the National Identity Register (NIR) will store all 10 fingerprints and a facial... [15 Apr 2009]
£650m ID card biometrics: IBM and CSC win contracts
News On Tuesday, the Home Office announced that IBM had won a £265m contract to build and run the UK Border Agency database of fingerprints and facial images taken for passports and visa applications, called the National... [08 Apr 2009]
ID cards to remain unreadable until next year
News While the cardholder's details and photo are printed on the face of the card, their fingerprints can only be accessed by reading the chip. The UK will have no way of reading the data stored on ID cards... [07 Apr 2009]
Voice Biometrics as a Natural and Cost-Effective Method of Authentication
White Paper In the past, voice biometrics took a back seat to other physical biometric methods of identification and verification, such as fingerprints, facial recognition and iris scans, but new algorithms and more robust computer... [01 Apr 2009]
Home Office to widen ID card grasp?
News Under the proposed regulations, which are part of government plans, applicants under six categories for UK immigration will need to provide fingerprints and a photograph to be stored electronically on the card, the Home... [13 Feb 2009]
Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them
News While some details about the holder as well as their photo is printed on the face of the card, the cardholder's fingerprints can only be accessed by reading the chip. The first UK ID cards have already... [04 Feb 2009]
ID cards: Rely on 'visual check' as biometrics unreadable
News Fingerprints and facial scans will be captured at seven UKBA centres, starting with Croydon today before rolling it out to other centres in Armagh, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool and Sheffield, with all centres... [25 Nov 2008]
