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News The government has announced it will drop plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers. Pilots and other airside workers will not be forced to apply for or carry the cards, the Home Office said in a statement on Tuesday. [01 Jul 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 fingerprints and facial photographs that... [06 May 2009]
£650m ID card biometrics: IBM and CSC win contracts
News IBM and CSC have been awarded contracts to run some of the technology behind the government's ID cards and passports schemes. On Tuesday, the Home Office announced that IBM had won a £265m contract to build and run the UK Border Agency... [08 Apr 2009]
Gov't watchdog reveals first ID card worries
News The agency charged with driving value for money for government projects has revealed its early concerns over the £4.7bn ID card project. The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has published the findings of two Gateway Reviews into the... [20 Mar 2009]
Suppressed ID card reports 'must be made public'
News Reviews of the controversial ID cards project are to be published after the government lost a four-year-long battle to keep them secret. The two independent Gateway Reviews into the likely success of the £4.7bn ID cards project,... [20 Feb 2009]
Home Office to widen ID card grasp?
News The Home Office has made a formal request to Parliament to increase the scope of ID cards for foreign nationals. Under the proposed regulations, which are part of government plans, applicants under six categories for UK immigration will... [13 Feb 2009]
"We must not allow ourselves to become a Big Brother society"
News Both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have attacked the UK government over the retention of travel data. The government plans to retain all travel data for everyone entering and leaving the country in a centralised database... [10 Feb 2009]
One million people's details could be culled from DNA database
News Nearly one million innocent people's DNA records could be wiped from the national database after the EU ruled it breached human rights. The European Court of Human Rights decision means that the DNA details and possibly fingerprints of... [05 Dec 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.11.08
Round-Up The national ID card scheme has had its detractors. Quite a few, actually. In fact, the only people who aren't detractors are the ministers promoting it - but they hardly count when you consider they'll be moved to a different department... [01 Dec 2008]
ID cards: Rely on 'visual check' as biometrics unreadable
News The first UK ID cards will be of limited use for full biometric ID checks on foreign workers, with the government yet to reveal a timetable for the deployment of scanners capable of reading the cards. [25 Nov 2008]
ID card costs rise - but is the security weakening?
News Opponents of ID cards have renewed their attacks on the scheme, claiming security is being watered down even as the cost of the cards rises. Cards will only be checked against biometric details on the National Identity Register (NIR) in... [07 Nov 2008]
ID cards on driving licences - 'law can't stop us'
News A Home Office minister has mooted turning UK driving licences into ID cards, sparking accusations the national biometric database will be forced in by the back door. Speaking today at the Biometrics Conference 2008, identity minister Meg... [21 Oct 2008]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. At the end of last week the Home Office announced its latest blunder concerning the public's personal data. [28 Aug 2008]
Prisoner data breach firm paid £100m
News The management consultancy firm at the centre of the latest government data breach storm has been paid almost £100m over three years for its services by the Home Office and its agencies, with individual consultants from the company being... [22 Aug 2008]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News The thousands of UK ePassports stolen on Monday are likely to sell for up to £20m on the black market, say privacy experts. A van carrying about 3,000 blank ePassports and visas was hijacked on route to RAF Northolt, near London. [29 Jul 2008]
