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The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment Think about the consequences of extending credit without proper checks. In that light ID cards don't seem such a bad idea - why should they be? Over the past few years we've had some feverish debate about ID cards. [21 Jul 2008]
ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers
News ID cards for 'airside' workers - those who work beyond airport security checks - will become compulsory in 2009. Phil Booth, national co-ordinator of No2ID, said: "The vetting of people with secure airside access will go way beyond the ID card checks. [07 Jul 2008]
Experian launches biometric voice ID checks
News The service, which is hosted by Experian can be combined with other conventional ID verification checks as a fail-safe and used to cross reference other registrants with the same voice, thereby uncovering fraudsters. [23 Jun 2008]
Idtechex Case Study: Massachusetts General Hospital Blood, USA
White Paper A bedside ID check is made and checks are envisaged in the operating room. In other words, frequent automated ID checks would be particularly useful. A pilot study of RFID has been carried out in Massachusetts General Hospital, the client, using a... [10 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up Doing little to dispel the general sense of despair at Heathrow was news the airport has had to temporarily suspend plans to introduce biometric fingerprint checks for domestic passengers travelling through the airport. [28 Mar 2008]
ID cards chief defends u-turn
News It also emerged that employers of the "trusted workers" who will get the cards first, such as BAA, are likely to continue picking up the bill for pre-employment checks under the ID card system. He added that security and Criminal Records Bureau... [10 Mar 2008]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Automated biometric systems will eventually replace the often laborious system of repeated manual passport and security checks that plague fliers today, said Matthew Finn, director of government and security for airline industry IT body Sita. [21 Feb 2008]
India to train thousands more cyber cops
News Mittal said that with large outsourcers employing about 60,000 people Nasscom was continuing to push employers to put pressure on workers to sign up to the NSR - which allows background and ID checks linked to fingerprints. [06 Feb 2008]
Stolen M&S laptop contains 26,000 pension details
News She said the firm had informed all employees by letter the moment it found out about the theft, set up a helpline for affected workers and provided them with unlimited credit checks with Experian. Last year Gordon Brown announced that the ICO would... [25 Jan 2008]
Call for tougher online retail age checks
News Moran said: "It is clear that currently there are inadequate checks put in place by a large number of online retailers and if they are going to continue to drag their heels over this issue then it is up to Parliament to ensure our children are... [21 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…
Comment Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas The government allows unrestricted immigration, ensuring plenty of media coverage about the issue, then tries to introduce by stealth an ID card system firstly for immigrants in the hope that we won't see... [17 Jan 2008]
Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas
News Immigration minister Liam Byrne congratulated Border and Immigration Agency officials and set out 10 milestones to strengthen border protection this year, which include introducing compulsory ID cards for foreign nationals who want to stay in the... [14 Jan 2008]
Brunel University uses spam filter to fight cyber bullying
Case Study The email filtering system checks through each message according to a profile of recognised words and phrases and decides whether each of them is about proper college business - at a fraction of the time it takes to do manually. [11 Jan 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News The university admissions body Ucas trialled software that checks university applications against its archive to make sure applicants aren't copying material available via the web.applicants were found to have plagiarised other sources within... [19 Dec 2007]
Stories of the year
News The government has now agreed to data security spot checks across all departments and ministers are calling for an ID cards review. ID cards will be secure, insists Home Office The UK ID card scheme was making headlines this year with the Home... [14 Dec 2007]
