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Re:Viewing 2006: The year in the public sector
News But people who opt out would still have to pay for the ID card - and have their fingerprints and personal details taken and stored on the national identity register (NIR) when they got a new passport. [21 Dec 2006]
ID card mega-database ditched
News The National Identity Register (NIR) was to be the giant database at the heart of the project, holding personal identity information and biometric data for everyone enrolled in the scheme. The Department for Work and Pensions has a very large... [19 Dec 2006]
Blair-Hitler ID card ad 'not offensive'
News N is for National Identity Register I is for Identity and Passport Service A full-page anti-ID card advert that appeared in the national press portraying Prime Minister Tony Blair with a Hitler-style barcode moustache was not offensive, the UK's... [30 Nov 2006]
ID card procurement timetable revealed
News In a public web chat this week Hall said the detailed design of the National Identity Register and the ID cards is still being worked on and that trials of the biometric technology will take place during the procurement process. [17 Nov 2006]
Blair slams ID cards critics
News Blair said the National Identity Register (NIR) and biometric ID cards will also tackle identity theft and make it easier for people to prove their identity when opening bank accounts and applying for mortgages and the like. [07 Nov 2006]
CIO Jury: Businesses face ID management headache
News Stephen Hand, group IT director at Lloyd's Register, said: "The number and function of IDs is growing exponentially and needs a radically new approach. Stephen Hand, group IT director, Lloyd's Register [21 Sep 2006]
IT vendors fear being linked with ID cards scheme
News The leaked document said the 15 companies that responded to the consultation might not bid for any of the contracts to build the cards and the National Identity Register (NIR) because of the potential damage to their reputation. [24 Jul 2006]
Wanted: ID cards CIO
News The Home Office is looking to recruit a new CIO to oversee the ID cards programme and the National Identity Register (NIR). Recruitment for the post has yet to begin formally but responsibilities include developing and delivering IS and IT strategy... [21 Jul 2006]
Official: ID cards project will fail
News According to the emails, published in The Sunday Times, Foord also raised concerns about the National Identity Register (NIR). We are still committed to the introduction of the national identity scheme. [10 Jul 2006]
Renew your passport and beat the ID cards plan
News Throughout May anti-ID card group No2ID has been running a campaign encouraging people to renew their passports, which the group said will keep people out of the National Identity Register (NIR) - the database behind the system - until 2016. [26 May 2006]
ID cards to be used for criminal record checks
News Another key change in the CRB will be the setting up of a new online register of vetted people - run by the Department for Education and Skills - for employers to check. Anyone who undergoes a criminal record check will be added to the register... [23 May 2006]
Organised crime 'will attack ID cards database'
News Organised crime will try and crack the identity cards database - the National Identity Register (NIR) - the Liberal Democrats have warned. Clegg said, if organised criminals are capable of infiltrating the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP... [17 May 2006]
The A to Z of ID cards
News N is for National Identity Register N is for National Identity Register N is for National Identity Register N is for National Identity Register N is for National Identity Register N is for National Identity Register [04 May 2006]
ID database will become national population register
News The government says the ID card database will become a national population register of basic personal information for the public sector to verify identity and has called for the development of a children's register as well. [19 Apr 2006]
Does the ID cards scheme have a 'self-destruct' button?
News Anne Main MP asked the Home Office what contingency plans are being prepared for the "rapid wholesale deletion of data held on the National Identity Register in the event of invasion by a foreign power". [12 Apr 2006]
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