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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up The government had planned to have cards issued in Manchester in October but this week it was revealed that people living or working in Manchester will now be able to enrol their details for an ID card... [20 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News The controversial ID project has hit another delay, with the government missing its own deadline to get the cards into the hands of Manchester residents. The Home Office announced today that people... [16 Nov 2009]
The REAL ID Act: Why Real ID Cards Should Be Based on Smart Card Technology
White Paper The Smart Card Alliance strongly recommends that smart card technology be adopted as the underlying infrastructure for state driver's licenses issued to comply with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 Smart... [14 Nov 2009]
Smart Cards and Biometrics in a Privacy-Sensitive Secure Personal Identification System
White Paper Both government and commercial organizations are implementing secure personal Identification (ID) systems to improve confidence in verifying the identity of individuals seeking access to physical or virtual locations. [14 Nov 2009]
Using Smart Cards for Secure Physical Access
White Paper Standards-based smart Identification (ID) cards can be used to easily authenticate a person's identity, determine the appropriate level of access, and physically admit the cardholder to a facility. Smart... [12 Nov 2009]
Smart Card Technology: The Right Choice for REAL ID
White Paper Unlike other identification technologies, smart cards can implement a personal firewall for an individual's data, releasing only the information required and only when it is required. The privacy of a citizen's personal... [12 Nov 2009]
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]
