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Round-Up Wanted: fingerprints of one unkempt, jowly, harassed-looking Scottish gentleman. Reward: £1,000. An elaborate stunt dreamed up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy International is offering a reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints...
[11 Apr 2008]
Photo Wild West-style wanted posters will offer a £1,000 reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary. The spoof posters, seen here, offer the reward for anyone who can lawfully obtain the fingerprints of either...
[07 Apr 2008]
News Support for the UK's national ID card programme continues to plummet as one quarter of people say they are strongly opposed to the scheme. According to the ICM poll, 25 per cent of those surveyed thought it was a "very bad" idea - up from 17 per...
[06 Feb 2008]
News The Prime Minister Gordon Brown has reiterated his backing for ID cards this week in the face of accusations his support for the controversial scheme is wavering. During Prime Minister's questions this week the leader of the Conservatives David...
[10 Jan 2008]
News The ID cards scheme will not be scrapped, despite rumours to the contrary, according to government sources. The Guardian reported yesterday that Gordon Brown had ordered a review of the technology to be used in the scheme due to cost.
[06 Nov 2007]
News Plans for a new service using the government's controversial ID cards scheme to speed up criminal records checks have met with approval from volunteers involved in a trial of the tech. The volunteers piloted two potential online services developed...
[01 Oct 2007]
News The UK's identity cards scheme will cost more than £5.5bn to set up and run over the next 10 years, according to the government. The cost of providing ePassports and ID cards to UK citizens for the period between April 2007 and April 2017 is...
[10 May 2007]
News A leading government advisor has heavily criticised low levels of awareness of security threats within the public sector. Lieutenant general Sir Edmund Burton, a key advisor to the Cabinet Office on information assurance issues, said that with the...
[02 Feb 2007]
News Plans to share more information across the public sector are not a step towards a 'Big Brother' state, the government has insisted. It wants to share more information between departments and agencies, and claims this will also make life easier for...
[15 Jan 2007]
News 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 advertising watchdog has ruled.
[30 Nov 2006]
News The ID cards scheme has come under fire again after a report by a government committee expressed "great concern" about the lack of transparency and the cost and scope of the project. The damning report by MPs on the government's Science and...
[04 Aug 2006]
News The government is re-evaluating its ID cards project as part of a wider review of the Home Office's activities. Home Secretary John Reid launched the review soon after taking up his post in May, following a series of controversies over the...
[12 Jul 2006]
News Leaked emails from senior civil servants have revealed their fears that the ID cards project is heading for disaster. In the emails David Foord, mission critical director of identity and defence at the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) criticised...
[10 Jul 2006]
News If you want to stay out of the government's identity card database for the next 10 years you might want to renew your passport now. Throughout May anti-ID card group No2ID has been running a campaign encouraging people to renew their passports...
[26 May 2006]
News The public will be forced to fork out for a costly replacement if the biometric chip in their future passport or ID card breaks down, the government has admitted. In response to a written parliamentary question about footing the bill for damaged...
[05 May 2006]
News The government has wasted no time in starting work on the controversial ID card scheme after the bill became law this week, and has set up a new agency that will be tasked with introducing ID cards. The ID cards bill is now on the statute book...
[31 Mar 2006]
News The ID cards battle remains deadlocked after MPs again overturned a House of Lords amendment that would have prevented people being forced to register for an ID card when applying for a passport. MPs voted by 292 votes to 241 votes - an increased...
[16 Mar 2006]
Leader Reading the papers this morning, you'd be forgiven for thinking the government had made some compromises on the controversial ID cards legislation, which will be voted on again by MPs in the House of Commons on Monday.
[10 Feb 2006]
News ID card critics have slammed government plans to include RFID-style tracking tags on the controversial cards, saying they will be a "snooper's paradise". Home Office minister Andy Burnham told parliament just before Christmas that ID cards will not...
[30 Jan 2006]
Leader Today represents something of a landmark day in silicon.com's ongoing ID Cards on Trial campaign following the savage defeat inflicted on the flawed legislation by peers in the House of Lords on Monday evening.
[17 Jan 2006]
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