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ID cards are dead
Comment I is for Iris Although passport applicants will have to give up their biometric scans for the national register they won't be required to pay £30 (again that's the government's estimate - critics put the cost much higher) for an ID card to go with... [07 Mar 2008]
ID card mega-database ditched
News Iris scans are now not going to be used following the review of the project in the summer - only fingerprints and facial biometrics. The government has trimmed back its controversial ID cards plans, ditching a single mega-database to hold all ID... [19 Dec 2006]
Photos: Biometric security comes to Heathrow
Photo The miSense trial at London's Heathrow Airport will use biometric fingerprint and iris scans to screen air passengers on selected Emirates and Cathay Pacific flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong. A digital facial image is also taken, along with... [06 Dec 2006]
Renew your passport and beat the ID cards plan
News People who opt out will still have to pay for the ID card - and still have their fingerprints, iris scans and personal details taken and stored on the NIR. Throughout May anti-ID card group No2ID has been running a campaign encouraging people to... [26 May 2006]
Organised crime 'will attack ID cards database'
News If the ID cards database is breached, people could find their iris scans and fingerprints - as well as personal data and national insurance numbers - stolen. Organised crime will try and crack the identity cards database - the National Identity... [17 May 2006]
New ID cards agency set up after Queen approves bill
News But the compromise means that those who choose to opt out will still have to pay for the ID card - and have their fingerprints, iris scans and personal details taken and stored on the national identity register (NIR) when they get a new passport. [31 Mar 2006]
Lords leave ID cards bill in tatters
News Although the government claims ID cards will initially be voluntary, it wants to force anyone applying for a new passport to give their fingerprint and iris scans for inclusion on the ID card database: the NIR. [24 Jan 2006]
Microsoft warns ID cards pose massive security risk
News Fishenden said no systems are ever completely secure and warned that putting vast amounts of personal data and biometric information such as iris, fingerprint and facial scans in one central database would prove too tempting a target for hackers... [18 Oct 2005]
Queen gives ID cards and a UK 'FBI' the green light
News The ID card scheme proposed by the Home Office will see the introduction of a standalone ID card containing biometric information such as iris scans, fingerprints and a facial scan by 2008. More significantly, a vast database of UK citizens' data... [23 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet: ID cards
Cheat Sheet The Home Office ran a trial over the summer - which silicon.com took part in - enrolling 10,000 volunteers for a mock ID card using iris scans, facial recognition and a fingerprint scan. The person checking the card would use a card reader in... [22 Nov 2004]
ID card opponents won't give up without a fight
News Among those polled by silicon.com who supported the cards, there was massive support for biometrics, with 85.4 per cent of respondents saying data such as fingerprints and iris scans should be utilised to increase the security and trustworthiness... [26 Apr 2004]
Will ID cards contain DNA sample?
News The current proposal contains plans for a central database 'citizen register' that will tie in to the biometric element of the ID card, such as an iris or fingerprint scan. Richard Barrington, head of government affairs and public policy at Sun... [27 Nov 2003]
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