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ID cards: Seven years of missed deadlines and U-turns
News December 2006 - The Home Office drops proposals for the card's microchip to store iris scans, deciding that a scan of fingerprints and a facial photo will be sufficient. Daugman claims that fingerprints... [02 Dec 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 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... [13 Jul 2009]
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... [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... [08 Apr 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]
Row over high street biometrics
News However, so far the Home Office has given no precise information as to how fingerprints would be linked to biographical data, or any details about how the National Identity Scheme would be implemented. [10 Nov 2008]
ID card costs rise - but is the security weakening?
News Yesterday the government began touting for high street businesses and other companies to install the equipment to take the 10 fingerprints, facial and signature scan that will be stored in the NIR. Critics say it will... [07 Nov 2008]
ID card 'will drown in a billion mismatches'
News The ID card scheme will guard against one person having multiple identities by checking the two fingerprints and facial scan held on a chip on the ID card against biometrics in a central database, the... [26 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... [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 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. The launch of the site... [09 Jul 2008]
Warning: ID cards face fingerprint errors
News BAG claims that "exception handling" - dealing with mismatched or unclear fingerprints - would occupy a large amount of NIS' resources, putting the technology, delivery and costs under strain. BAG claims there are four... [20 Jun 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... [07 Mar 2008]
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