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News In a victory for data loss law campaigners, MPs backed the amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act to make it an offence for anyone to "intentionally or recklessly disclose information" or "repeatedly and negligently" allow...
[12 May 2008]
Round-Up And to think, only this week the House of Lords supported a hasty amendment to the criminal justice and immigration bill which would make it a criminal offence to carelessly release or lose personal data.
[02 May 2008]
News Peers supported an amendment to the criminal justice and immigration bill which would make it a criminal offence to carelessly release or lose personal data. Losing personal data took a step closer to becoming a criminal offence after the House of...
[28 Apr 2008]
News Violent crime has doubled, immigration has tripled and police now spend more time on paper work than patrol. The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 per cent hike in the cost of Home Office consultants - taking the bill up to £147m last year.
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have spurred a burst of interest in United States immigration laws. Immediately after the attacks, the news media filled with reports that the terrorists had entered the United States on student visas...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Addressing concerns about illegal immigration, the solution integrates different databases from within the Ministry and from other organizations such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Migration control and border management is a key priority for...
[10 Apr 2008]
News Pressure is building on parliament to quash part of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill that would mean those buying or selling data would face prison (clause 76). The UK's information watchdog has issued a stark warning to the government not...
[01 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The Jelly Belly Candy Company started in 1869 with the American immigration of two German brothers. The challenge was to upgrade network security, especially to protect e-commerce operations being moved in-house from a hosting company, and provide...
[31 Mar 2008]
News A statement from BAA, which operates Heathrow, said the introduction of fingerprinting technology would be "temporarily delayed" following a meeting with the Information Commissioner and the Border and Immigration Agency.
[26 Mar 2008]
News Heathrow to invest in more iris scanning machines as it rolls out its Project Iris trusted-traveller pilot project to speed passengers' journeys through immigration control. The technology industry has pledged to fight for a share of a public...
[12 Mar 2008]
News Tony Mercer, network operations director at UKvisas, said in a statement: "We had to increase the accuracy of our immigration decisions, as well as ensure visa application turnaround time met our public service agreement targets.
[05 Mar 2008]
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]
News A spokesman for the UK government's Border and Immigration Agency said: "We have already tested trusted traveller schemes such as IRIS and we are keen to learn and build on those. Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know...
[21 Feb 2008]
News The technology ensures that a transferring international passenger cannot swap travel documents with a domestic passenger in order to evade immigration control. Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric...
[08 Feb 2008]
News And also the replacement and upgrading of systems for fingerprint matching and storage in connection with immigration and visa requirements and transition to the replacement service. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards
[25 Jan 2008]
News Shadow immigration minister, Damian Green, said: "The government are clearly trying to introduce the cards by stealth. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's...
[24 Jan 2008]
Comment 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 what they're up to - i.e.trying to make us...
[17 Jan 2008]
News The system will cover 133 countries, three-quarters of the world's population, and has already uncovered 10,000 visa applicants connected to earlier immigration cases and asylum requests and detected 500 cases of identity swapping.
[14 Jan 2008]
News The Identity Cards Act 2006 already allows for ID cards to be registered and issued as people apply for official documents such as passports and immigration documents, although nobody will be able to apply for a separate card until 2009.
[10 Jan 2008]
News Iraq, immigration, taxes and health care probably have been the four most pressing topics of the 2008 US presidential campaign. Had there been an opportunity to properly consider this legislation, it would have been revealed that the Real ID Act...
[03 Jan 2008]
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