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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]
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. The IPS and... [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 outlets, which also... [08 Jul 2009]
The A to Z of ID cards
News In April 2009 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,... [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... [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. Readers capable of scanning the cards' chips will not be in place until they are... [07 Apr 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. Currently no police stations, border... [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]
UK ID cards unveiled today
News The cards, expected to cost about £30, are fitted with a chip containing scans of a facial photograph, two fingerprints and identity information. Doubts have also been raised about its reliance on... [25 Sep 2008]
ID card contract shortlist gets shorter
News IBM and Thales are through to the next round of discussions for a £500m contract to deliver the National Biometric Identity Service programme to replace the existing passport photo database with a new... [16 Sep 2008]
£18m National Identity Register deal awarded
News A recent independent review of the ID cards scheme by the Biometrics Assurance Group suggested the system could struggle in capturing the fingerprints of up to four million people. The spokesman said that both the NIR... [04 Aug 2008]
UK passports face massive price hike
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. He said in the report: "The... [10 Oct 2007]
Heathrow to run biometric security checks
News The more advanced screening requires the passenger to undergo a manual enrolment at the airport where their 10 fingerprints, two irises and facial image are scanned and stored on a database. The airport authorities and... [06 Dec 2006]
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