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News A recent Home Office response to another ID cards related FoI enquiry shows the department spent a total of £31.6m on external consultants' services for the ID cards project between the financial years 2003/04 and 2005/06. [22 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Bordering on stupidity
Comment A to Z of ID Cards O is for Other cards N is for National Identity Register Take that old paper passport and add some electronics to turn it into a super-secure means of ID and certification. Written in a coffee shop in Mountain View CA and... [21 Aug 2008]
£18m National Identity Register deal awarded
News ID cards: Latest news ID cards face student scorn ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers Warning: ID cards face fingerprint errors ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk diams... [04 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment 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. On top of that we've had the drive towards national data consolidation in the public and private sectors. [21 Jul 2008]
ID cards face student scorn
News Young people have condemned ID cards as "illegal" and "creepy" on a website to canvas their views. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards O is for Other cards Feedback from the site will be put towards tailoring the biometric card to suit young people's... [09 Jul 2008]
ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers
News Representatives of the aviation industry have said they are being used as political pawns to further the government's controversial ID cards programme. If the government hasn't been able to convince the air industry that ID cards will bring... [07 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News A to Z of ID Cards The IPS is also responsible for delivering the ID cards scheme, which will be rolled out over the next four years, starting with about 10 million "critical" workers in 2009, young people in 2010 and the rest of the UK public in... [02 Jul 2008]
Warning: ID cards face fingerprint errors
News ID cards: Latest news Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill ID cards chief defends u-turn ID card u-turn by government ID cards... [20 Jun 2008]
ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News The Home Affairs Committee report says the ID cards scheme should not become a "surveillance tool" and demands stronger assurances about the government's ability to protect information in the wake of government data loss scandals. [09 Jun 2008]
Time to bin ID cards?
News ID cards: Latest news Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill ID cards chief defends u-turn ID card u-turn by government ID cards... [23 May 2008]
Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release
News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards O is for Other cards The High Court has quashed a ruling that a review of the ID card scheme should be published. Judge Stanley Burnton overturned the decision by the Information Tribunal that the ID card gateway... [14 Apr 2008]
ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill
News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards O is for Other cards 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. The government plans to start taking the first... [11 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08
Round-Up The campaign is an attack on government plans to take the biometric details of UK citizens for ID cards, starting next year. An elaborate stunt dreamed up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy International is offering a reward for anyone... [11 Apr 2008]
ID cards chief defends u-turn
News The head of Britain's ID cards project and national identity database has defended the government's revised ID card plans in the face of allegations of a u-turn after the project was scaled back. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards [10 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up Furthermore, the Parliamentary vote to make ID cards compulsory will now be put back to 2015. There are a few more bits of empty posturing from the government here but overall it’s a significant victory for opponents of ID cards, which, let's face... [07 Mar 2008]
