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News Iris recognition is also likely to form part of the government's controversial ID cards project. They're at the heart of the government's ID cards plans and are already being used in airport security systems. [20 Jul 2006]
ID cards: What's the latest?
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. Government plans to introduce ID cards have taken another battering recently, with suggestions of delays to their introduction and... [29 Jan 2008]
ID cards: Gov't slaps on fines of up to £1,000
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. The latest government ID card plans have revealed people will face fines of up to £1,000 for skipping biometric scans. [26 Feb 2008]
Students revolt against being ID card guinea pigs
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. Students have launched a stinging attack on UK government proposals to make young people "guinea pigs" for ID cards. [24 Jan 2008]
Local gov't adopts web-savvy interaction
News Web services are becoming an increasingly important way for citizens to interact with local government and councils are responding with improved websites. The number of visitors to council websites sites increased by more than 10 per cent in the... [04 Mar 2008]
Gov't fails to keep court data locked up
News The government department responsible for ensuring standards in the UK's courts is investigating the loss of four CDs containing personal details. The data breach is the latest incident in an exhausting list of government security breaches, which... [23 Jan 2008]
ID cards plan: Airport union wants answers
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. G is for Government IT Meanwhile the government admitted to another embarrassing data mishap after it revealed a CD containing details of... [20 Feb 2008]
Public trust eroded: Data breaches to blame
News The British Computing Society has criticised the government, claiming its high-profile data breaches have eroded public trust. David Evans, the BCS's government relations manager, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that BCS members within... [30 Apr 2008]
'Connected' UK vulnerable in face of cyber attack
News The government has said it is engaged in tackling ongoing state-sponsored cyber attacks on UK national infrastructure. Security minister Lord West told the House of Lords that the UK continues to be targeted by a "large number of attacks" and that... [16 Jun 2008]
Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. G is for Government IT Two major IT suppliers have pulled out of the bidding for lucrative contracts to build the systems underpinning the... [25 Jan 2008]
ICO: HMRC breach - where were the tech safeguards?
News In the wake of the largest-ever data breach to hit the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office has criticised the apparent lack of technological safeguards in government departments and called for "privacy-enhancing technologies" to be built... [23 Nov 2007]
ICO: Make 'reckless' data loss an offence
News In a document submitted to government, information commissioner Richard Thomas called for the Data Protection Act (DPA) to be amended to include a penalty for data controllers "knowingly or recklessly failing to comply with the principles" of the... [31 Jan 2008]
Gov trumpets ePassports successes
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. The government has pointed to the successes of its ePassports scheme, claiming 4,000 ineligible visa applications have been blocked due to... [13 Jul 2007]
£31m pumped into ID card project
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. The government estimates the ID cards scheme will cost more than £5.5bn to set up and run over the next 10 years, a figure which has been... [30 Jul 2007]
Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. G is for Government IT The matter was sent to the High Court after the Office of Government Commerce appealed a decision by the tribunal... [14 Apr 2008]
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