passports
RSS passportsID card spending doubles to £56m
News The IPS was created on 1 April, bringing together the Home Office ID cards programme and the UK Passport Service to issue passports, ID cards and other biometric identification documents. Following the launch of biometric passports will be the... [21 Apr 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]
Private sector could face ID card costs
News The government said the £584m running costs of the scheme will be recovered through fees for issuing passports and ID cards, issuing replacements of lost documents and through charges to organisations that want to use the verification service. [27 May 2005]
Biometric passport cracked and cloned
News A hacker called Lukas Grunwald showed attendees at the Las Vegas Black Hat convention how to clone passports, using a German passport for his demonstration. Simon Perry, VP security strategy at CA and a member of the European Network and... [04 Aug 2006]
ePassports start their travels
News The new, more secure passports will be rolled out gradually until the end of the summer. The new passports contain a chip which holds a facial biometric. Existing passports remain valid until their expiry date and holders do not need to exchange... [21 Feb 2006]
ID cards rollout pushed back to 2012
News The Home Office insists the project is on track despite an earlier action plan pledge that cards would be issued in "significant" numbers to those renewing their passports from 2010. Biometric passports were introduced on schedule in 2006 but the... [23 Jan 2008]
Public will "pay twice" for ID cards
News He said in a statement: "The current policy for replacing lost or damaged passports is that the customer makes a fresh application and pays the full cost for renewing the passport unless the document was clearly faulty at issue, there are no plans... [05 May 2006]
Want to visit the US? Now you have to show your biometrics...
News On reaching the US, along with handing over passports at the immigration desks, visa holders will have both their index fingers scanned and photo taken and used to verify their identity and, the security forces are hoping, turn up a terrorist or... [06 Jan 2004]
Biometric ID: 'Will work, will happen and will be popular'
News Carl Gohringer, head of product development for NEC security solutions, said biometric passports are far better than anything we have now and have nowhere near the same exposure to fraudulent use or forgery. [28 Apr 2004]
Compulsory ID card trial scheme launched
News The volunteers will carry their own card with their personal data stored on it and the results of the trial are intended to set the stage for the introduction of mandatory identity cards, as well as help the government in its roll-out of biometric... [03 Dec 2003]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News UK passports face massive price hike The manufacturers could only guarantee the chips for two years, even though the passports are supposed to be issued for 10. The year was dominated by stories about government-held personal data, whether that was... [19 Dec 2007]
MPs back compulsory ID cards
News The peers' objection is that the government's election manifesto promised ID cards would be voluntary initially and that by linking them to passports - held by 85 per cent of the population - this would effectively make it "compulsion by stealth". [14 Mar 2006]
Passport applicants told to stop smiling
News The guidelines will ensure UK passports comply with standards introduced by the International Civil Aviation Organisation in 2003. Bernard Herdan, chief executive of the UKPS, said in a statement: "In the face of the growing threat of forgery and... [06 Sep 2005]
Brown backs biometrics
News And with passports now requiring biometrics, a necessity people understand, 80 per cent of the adult population will have to register their biometrics to ensure our borders are secure and so they can travel freely across the world. [14 Feb 2006]
ID card "route map" revealed by UK Passport Service
News In the medium-term, facial biometrics in new passports will enable the UKPS to comply with new International Civil Aviation Organisation and US border controls, which are supposed to come into effect in October this year, and cut down on... [31 Mar 2004]
