national identity register
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 well as ensuring "information... [14 Sep 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo These details can then be checked against copies of that information held in a central database called the National Identity Register (NIR). ID cards will be able to be used to verify a... [30 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. In April, IBM was awarded the... [13 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment While it would be foolish to claim any system is 100 per cent secure, Vernon said, she claims that the security of people's personal and biometric details will be protected by the fact that the National... [10 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News On Wednesday MPs will vote on secondary legislation under the Identity Cards Act 2006 that will introduce the fee of £30 for enrolling details on the National Identity... [07 Jul 2009]
ID cards head for the high street
News Under the plans customers will be able to use the high street outlets to scan their fingerprints and facial photographs that will be stored on microchips in the cards or biometric visas and the central National... [06 May 2009]
The A to Z of ID cards
News The ID cards will electronically store two fingerprints and a photograph on a built-in microchip, while the National Identity Register (NIR) will store all 10 fingerprints and a facial... [15 Apr 2009]
£650m ID card biometrics: IBM and CSC win contracts
News The NBIS database will feed into the National Identity Register, the database behind the ID cards scheme. Opposition to ID cards and the National... [08 Apr 2009]
'Fundamentally flawed, almost certainly illegal': Gov't databases
News Anderson said that the National Identity Register will be "a central spine on which to hang all information about a citizen, available to open access". These include the... [23 Mar 2009]
Home Office to widen ID card grasp?
News The spokesperson added that the biometric and personal details would be stored on the UK Borders Agency database, to be added to the National Identity Register when the permanent... [13 Feb 2009]
"We must not allow ourselves to become a Big Brother society"
News Booth said the National Identity Register (the database behind the National Identity Scheme), the ContactPoint child database, the NHS central care... [10 Feb 2009]
UK is Big Brother capital of the world say Lords
News At the same time national databases designed to hold personal information on nearly every UK citizen are being set up across Whitehall, from the NHS Care Records Service to the ID cards National... [06 Feb 2009]
First large-scale ID card trials coming to Manchester?
News Hillier said the price of the cards will be fixed at £30 until 2011 and that talks are continuing with high street businesses to host the machines needed to take the fingerprint and facial scans stored on the cards and the... [29 Jan 2009]
"Please give me an ID card" say UK citizens
News Smith also said that the Home Office also planned to introduce a secure "web-based service" to allow people to check how much of their "core identity information" is held on the National... [22 Dec 2008]
ID cards: Rely on 'visual check' as biometrics unreadable
News The admission by the IPS bolsters recent concerns that the ID verification scheme has been relegated to relying on "flash and go" cards, after Home Office documents revealed this month that the cards' biometric details will only be cross... [25 Nov 2008]
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