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Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo The cost of providing the cards and biometric passports for UK citizens over the next 10 years will be £5bn. This is the first glimpse at what the British ID card will look like. The design for the British cards was... [30 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 support both ID cards and second generation biometric... [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. This contract will provide a secure database for storing facial... [13 Jul 2009]
'Post Office workers can't spot ID card fraudsters'
News The Department for Transport (DfT) advised the committee that it was becoming increasingly difficult for Post Office staff to spot high quality fake passports that were being used for over the counter checks when... [08 Jul 2009]
Tories tell vendors: 'Don't sign ID card contracts'
News The programme to introduce biometric passports will be carried on by a Conservative government, according to Grayling's letter. The Conservatives have urged a group of technology suppliers not to sign contracts for work... [18 Jun 2009]
And the £400m biometric passport contract goes to…?
News The UK government has awarded the contract for creating the next generation of British passports to secure-document specialist DeLeRue. The Identity and Passport Service on Thursday announced the £400m contract for the... [12 Jun 2009]
ID cards head for the high street
News Figures released today also revealed that the projected cost of producing ID cards and biometric passports for UK citizens over the next 10 years is £4.9bn, up £175m on previous forecasts. The Post Office, pharmacists... [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... [08 Apr 2009]
FCO deal gets emergency passports travelling quicker
News ETDs are issued to UK nationals when they lose or have passports stolen overseas. The software supplied will replace manual systems which Tony Bates, FCO programme manager of next generation passports,... [02 Feb 2009]
IT Provider Uses Application Virtualization for Mission-Critical Software Upgrade
White Paper KIVBF needed to install new software on 2,000 PCs overnight to enable its customers to issue enhanced, second-generation passports with digital fingerprints. Kommunale InformationsVerarbeitung Baden-Franken (KIVBF)... [10 Dec 2008]
ID cards 'could replace passports'
News UK citizens will be able to use their ID cards to travel to Europe, raising the possibility that they could eventually replace passports, according to the Identity and Passport Service (IPS). P is for... [21 Nov 2008]
Row over high street biometrics
News If they do] they will have to answer how they will fill the black hole not only left by ID cards but biometric passports. The campaigner added that biometric passports, drivers' licences and other forms... [10 Nov 2008]
Photos: Cops use tech to point the finger of suspicion
Photo People have been stopped who have presented legitimate looking passports or driving licences but a fingerprint check has found them recorded with a different name. A recent trial, Project Lantern, saw about 200 scanners... [24 Oct 2008]
ID cards on driving licences - 'law can't stop us'
News Hillier went on to say she expects take-up to eventually mirror that of passports, which stands at about 80 per cent of the UK population. Speaking today at the Biometrics Conference 2008, identity minister Meg Hillier... [21 Oct 2008]
'Uncloneable' biometric passports pass the test
News Europe has moved closer to the rollout of full biometric passports after key systems were shown to work. The UK was one of 27 countries that took part in the tests of RFID chips and passport readers for second generation... [22 Sep 2008]
