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ID cards: 10,000 Brits want to sign up
News The first ID cards were issued to foreign nationals living in the UK from last November. The cards will be rolled out to the rest of the UK on a voluntary basis from 2011/12. Thousands... [19 Oct 2009]
Nandan Nilekani
AS Profile But this year Nilekani will embark on what is arguably his toughest challenge yet, delivering biometric ID cards to every one of India's 1.2 billion population. As head of the government's unique... [30 Sep 2009]
First ID card watchdog named
News The government has appointed its first identity commissioner to keep tabs on the UK's ID cards scheme. Sir Joseph Pilling will take up the watchdog role from next month, where he will be responsible for... [14 Sep 2009]
Largest hack and ID theft in US: Three suspects charged
News Two Russians and a Florida man were charged on Monday with hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven, and the Hannaford Brothers supermarket chain, and stealing data related to more than 130 million credit and debit... [18 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.08.09
Round-Up Talk of wasting time and money leads one inevitably towards the ID cards scheme. This week, someone with a lot of time on his or her hands and a calculator has worked out just how much the UK will save... [14 Aug 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo The cards will soon be available for UK nationals living in the North West of England. Home Secretary Alan Johnson revealed how the UK ID card will look in July. Here, you can see the location where... [04 Aug 2009]
Microsoft after Gates, Google Chrome, ID cards, printer woes and more
News Last but not least, the perennial favourite of ID cards with yet more axe-grinding from critics after the Home Secretary confirmed the scheme will now go ahead only on a voluntary basis. silicon.com's... [03 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... [30 Jul 2009]
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Comment Urban, educated Indians have a multitude of identification cards provided by the government such as passport, driver's licence, income tax payee card and voter's card. No single ID card is widespread,... [27 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up Meanwhile, the policy train-wreck that is the ID cards scheme got even more painful this week after it was revealed that the scheme to hand out the cards to airport staff has cost the... [24 Jul 2009]
Revealed: £12.4m cost of pilots' ID cards project
News The government has spent millions of pounds on a project to provide airport staff with ID cards - despite doubts over whether any workers will actually take part in the scheme. The scheme, initially... [23 Jul 2009]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News IBM's contract to supply technology for ID cards will last seven years, despite the possibility that a change in government could scupper the scheme. The NBIS is used for biometric passports and for the... [13 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment The Home Office CIO speaks to silicon.com's Nick Heath on ID cards, protecting data, and how tech can make a difference The Home Office's role in safeguarding national security means Vernon has oversight... [10 Jul 2009]
'Post Office workers can't spot ID card fraudsters'
News Plans to cut £1bn from the cost of the ID cards project by making people enrol on the high street could be unworkable, after a government report warned the process could be vulnerable to fraud. This is... [08 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News The government has defended itself against fresh calls to drop its troubled ID cards scheme, this time from within the Labour party. The debate follows the Home Secretary's decision last week to make... [07 Jul 2009]
