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And the £400m biometric passport contract goes to…?
News The Identity and Passport Service on Thursday announced the £400m contract for the passports, which will be available to UK citizens from October 2010. James Hall, chief executive of the Identity and... [12 Jun 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, called the National... [15 Apr 2009]
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... [23 Jan 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. To meet the US Visa Waiver... [10 Oct 2007]
ID card spending doubles to £56m
News The IPS said it will trial taking fingerprints next year as a second passport biometric. It said: "We anticipate piloting the recording of fingerprints as a second biometric from... [21 Apr 2006]
ID theft - what happens when you are the victim?
News Within two hours the police arrived to dust for fingerprints. They are required for some passport applications and a number of other government services as proof of ID. Next, I applied for a protective... [28 Feb 2006]
Iris, fingerprints and face to be used in ID card trial
News Iris, fingerprint and facial recognition will all be tested as part of the UK Passport Service's six-month trial of biometric technology ahead of the introduction of potentially... [08 Dec 2003]
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