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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 As of February 2009 fingerprints and facial scans for foreign nationals were being captured at seven UK Border Agency centres, Armagh, Birmingham, Cardiff, Croydon, Glasgow, Liverpool and Sheffield. In... [15 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 entry points or... [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. But a spokesman for the Identity and... [04 Aug 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... [09 Nov 2007]

First biometric passports issued to diplomats

News Later versions are likely to include other biometrics such as fingerprints. The passports are in the same format as the documents which will be issued to the public next year - the "new style passport... [08 Nov 2005]

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