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Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Video Cheat Sheet: ID cards ¦ Photos: Zoom in on London from the air… ¦ Photos of the month - January 2008 ¦ Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook...
[31 Jan 2008]
News ID Cards: The bidding war begins This happened before the loss of child benefit claimants' personal data by HMRC brought the whole idea of ID cards into question, and 2008 is bound to see more debate on this controversial issue.
[19 Dec 2007]
Comment ID cards to cost more than £5.6bn ID cards rocketing costs Also have people not noticed some smaller business who have minimum spends for using credit and debit cards as well as cheques because of the charges that are made?
[15 Nov 2007]
News Abagnale, now a security consultant, criticised the ID cards scheme and said: "You can develop all of the best security systems in the world, the most sophisticated software in the world [yet] all it takes is one weak link that is one person in...
[25 Oct 2007]
Cheat Sheet Recently, there has been a bit of a fuss around the national ID cards project after the OGC refused to reveal its traffic-light status following several requests. However, the Information Tribunal ruled last month that the ID cards data must be...
[07 Jun 2007]
News The LSE Identity Project estimates an annual operational cost of £600m for the ID cards scheme but projects only £150m per year will be made from registration fees, assuming five million enrolments per year at a cost of £30 per person.
[16 May 2007]
Comment But almost an hour later, I emerged feeling lucky there is now the internet, or on the odd occasion the phone, for dealing with everything from credit cards and loans to mortgages and pensions. But then with accounts opened left, right and centre...
[21 Mar 2007]
Leader More than 27,000 people who signed a separate petition calling for the ID cards scheme to be scrapped received an email from the PM this week too. In it Blair argues ID cards will help secure the UK's borders and tackle fraud, crime and terrorism.
[20 Feb 2007]
Comment Most recently the focus has been on the NHS' £6.2bn IT modernisation project and the national ID cards rollout. The manager of a 300-person staff and an $80m annual budget, he talks about starting out in finance, the pitfalls of managing mega...
[23 Nov 2006]
Round-Up And in the week when it transpired that the Western world will be ruled for at least the next year by a lame duck and a poodle - which sounds more like the cast of Animal Hospital than a quarter of the G8 - it's fitting Tony Blair was once again...
[10 Nov 2006]
News Prime Minister Tony Blair has again hit out at critics of the government's controversial ID cards scheme, arguing that biometric technology is crucial for fighting crime and securing the UK's borders.
[07 Nov 2006]
News Stolen identities, whether gained through stealing from bins or through phishing can be used to apply for bank accounts, credit cards and mobile phone contracts as well as identification documents such as passports.
[16 Oct 2006]
News The NIR will only contain details of adults over the age of 16 but a national child population database could also be on the cards. The Treasury confirmed this week that the newly created Identity and Passport Service (IPS) will take over the work...
[19 Apr 2006]
News Van Dyke said: "The process of issuing official paperwork or cards to allow individuals to identify themselves to law enforcement that they have been victims of identity fraud should help end the perpetrator's spree of crime.
[22 Mar 2006]
whitepaper The system does not require smart cards; it can be expanded to encompass other biometric features, and more interestingly, the ID does not need to be printed by a trusted or high-end printer, it can be printed anywhere, anytime, and potentially by...
[02 Mar 2006]
News The introduction of chip and PIN has made it more difficult for people to use stolen cards in the high street. The thieves sifted through drawers, taking utility bills, credit cards, statements and my birth certificate.
[28 Feb 2006]
News With the ID cards scheme moving ahead, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown backing the use of biometrics, it seems that finger, face and iris scanners will be soon become an everyday part of our society.
[23 Feb 2006]
News But one expert believes the government has been too preoccupied with the controversial ID cards project to consider such a solution. However he said there is "real irony" in the fact consideration of federation as a way to better-provide government...
[22 Feb 2006]
News In an interview with silicon.com in London last week, just after the House of Lords blocked the UK's ID cards legislation, Scannell warned that a national ID card scheme would do little to improve security or guard against the threat of terrorism.
[23 Jan 2006]
Comment There is no doubt there are real benefits to the introduction of an ID card - which I support - but until the government deals with the social aspects of the introduction of the cards we will simply be creating another IT project which went wrong.
[16 Jan 2006]
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