james crosby

ID cards chief defends u-turn

News Hall said the decision to delay a Parliamentary vote on making ID cards compulsory for British citizens until 2015 was an example of the government "listening to people" and to the recommendations of a wider report into "identity assurance" by...

Tags: id cards, security, identity, british

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[10 Mar 2008]

ID cards are dead

Comment Especially when a government commissioned report into the whole "identity assurance" issue, led by former HBoS banking chief James Crosby, was published this week saying ID cards will only be accepted by the public if they are free.

Tags: id cards, physical, cards, register

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[07 Mar 2008]

ID cards rollout pushed back to 2012

News The status of the review of ID cards and other identity technology issues is also unknown, with chief secretary to the treasury Andy Burnham saying there is no fixed date for the publication of the Public-Private Forum on Identity Management...

Tags: id cards, privacy international, home office, government

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[23 Jan 2008]

Gordon Brown sets up ID fraud taskforce

News Sir James Crosby, who steps down as CEO of Halifax Bank of Scotland at the end of July, will chair the newly created Public Private Forum on Identity Management. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has set up a taskforce to explore the future...

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[12 Jul 2006]

Call centre offshoring "not proven", says HBOS

News The decision to outsource some IT development work to India was defended by HBOS group CEO James Crosby, although he stressed the bank had no plans to go down that route for its customer-facing call centres.

Tags: outsourcing, offshoring, hbos

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[29 Apr 2005]