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First ID card watchdog named
News Sir Joseph Pilling will take up the watchdog role from next month, where he will be responsible for independently monitoring how ID cards are used by private companies and public sector organisations, as... [14 Sep 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo ID cards will be able to be used to verify a person's identity via the cards' embedded microchip, which will store the cardholder's biographic information, their photograph and a scan of... [30 Jul 2009]
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Comment Urban, educated Indians have a multitude of identification cards provided by the government such as passport, driver's licence, income tax payee card and voter's card. India's proposed unique identification is along the... [27 Jul 2009]
Revealed: £12.4m cost of pilots' ID cards project
News Spending on the wider ID cards project was revealed in the IPS accounts, which showed the IPS spent £85.1m on developing tech for the National Identity Scheme, which includes tech to... [23 Jul 2009]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News The NBIS is used for biometric passports and for the National Identity Register (NIR), which will be used in issuing ID cards under the government scheme. We will scrutinise these... [13 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment The Home Office's role in safeguarding national security means Vernon has oversight of the most high profile and controversial IT projects in the UK, ranging from organising IT security at the London 2012 Olympic Games... [10 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News The idea that you could half the national debt by abolishing ID cards is simply ludicrous. On Wednesday MPs will vote on secondary legislation under the Identity Cards... [07 Jul 2009]
ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
News ID card costs for the 2009/10 year are projected to reach £50m and hit £1.31bn over the 10-year period to 2019, according to the government's latest Identity Cards Scheme Cost Report, published in May... [01 Jul 2009]
ID cards U-turn: No compulsory cards for pilots
News Booth added that the government's backtracking shows the National Identity Scheme, which includes the issuing of ID cards, is in disarray. The government has announced it will drop plans... [01 Jul 2009]
Tories tell vendors: 'Don't sign ID card contracts'
News Damian Green, the shadow immigration minister, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the Tories want to remind the five companies that have been selected to bid for contracts to provide ID... [18 Jun 2009]
And the £400m biometric passport contract goes to…?
News The other deal, a contract to provide the National Biometric Identity Service with a database to support the introduction of biometric passports and ID cards, was awarded to IBM. The... [12 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Top of the list is the £5bn ID cards project, the scheme to provide a biometric identity card for UK citizens and foreign nationals in the UK. Johnson takes over the project as the government prepares to... [10 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.05.09
Round-Up Just as the opposition parties have promised to bin the ID cards scheme, the government has announced plans to put part of the responsibility for creating the high security cards in the... [08 May 2009]
ID cards head for the high street
News The Post Office, pharmacists and photography shops are in talks to scan photos and fingerprints for ID cards. Under the plans customers will be able to use the high street outlets to scan their... [06 May 2009]
Manchester public will get first UK ID cards
News I have come across very few people who see the benefits of [ID cards] and even fewer people who will choose to spend money on ID cards at a time when the country is... [06 May 2009]
