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RSS identity cardsLeader: ID cards face identity crisis
Leader As one by one the political justifications for ID cards - such as terrorism and identity fraud - fall by the wayside, and as the government seems stumped by the technical difficulties of the project, it becomes harder and harder to see why we... [10 Jul 2006]
ID cards 'could make identity fraud worse'
News The government's ID cards project will not combat ID fraud but could instead make the problem worse, according to the Conservatives who have seized upon the controversy surrounding the scheme to score some easy points. [03 Feb 2006]
Federated Identity, Distributed PKI and Smart Cards
White Paper This paper considers authentication systems based on smart cards, where the smart cards will be issued by many organizations, and authentication must work at any location. Federated Identity schemes have been proposed to support HSPD-12. [06 Jan 2008]
Social Security Numbers: Governments Could Do More to Reduce Display in Public Records and on Identity Cards
White Paper Today, the SSN has become a universal identifier; as such, it offers government as well as the private sector an efficient way to verify the identity and the qualifications of people for programs or activities ranging from taxes to health benefits... [07 Jul 2005]
ID cards and shredders to fight fraud, says Home Office
News The government is promoting shredders and ID cards as the best way of tackling identity theft. Home Office minister Andy Burnham said identity fraud is a growing crime, costing the country more than £1.3bn per year - and pointed to the government's... [07 Sep 2005]
ID card plans are back and 'more popular'
News The UK government is preparing to reintroduce legislation paving the way for its controversial biometric identity cards. Speaking in the House of Commons earlier this week, junior Home Office minister Andy Burnham said ID cards will give the public... [25 May 2005]
Forged ID cards won't work, insists government
News Forged identity cards will be "ineffective" because they won't be able to be verified through the central identity database, the government has insisted. In a written response to questions from MPs he said: "The identity cards scheme and the... [01 Dec 2005]
Italy spends $15m on ID cards
News Italy is buying $15m worth of optical memory cards as it rolls out a national biometric identity programme to its citizens. In May this year, the Italian government said that paper-based identity cards will no longer be issued after 1 January 2006. [10 Aug 2005]
ID cards scheme "getting out of control"
News The UK's identity cards scheme appears "out of control", according to a group of researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE), who are calling for an independent review of the project's figures. [16 May 2007]
Labour: ID card bill will return before the summer
News Legislation paving the way for identity cards will be reintroduced by the summer, if Labour wins the general election. I have spoken to the Prime Minister and Charles Clarke, who have agreed that the Identity Cards Bill will be a major plank of... [15 Apr 2005]
Lords slam government's ID cards bill
News The government's Identity Cards Bill has been criticised in two separate reports by MPs and Lords over the amount of personal information that would be stored on the National Identity Register (NIR) and the lack of safeguards to protect that data. [24 Oct 2005]
ID card spending reaches £20.6m
News The government has revealed fresh details of the levels of spending on its controversial identity cards project so far. In a written response to a parliamentary question, Baroness Scotland of Asthal said the identity cards programme appointed PA... [11 Oct 2005]
Decade of ID cards to cost £5.4bn, says government
News The UK's identity cards scheme will cost £5.4bn to set up and run over the next 10 years, according to the government. Byrne claimed the cards will be a "powerful tool to combat identity fraud which underpins organised crime, terrorism and abuse of... [10 Oct 2006]
ID cards may test Blair's reduced majority
News The government's controversial identity cards plan looks set to be one of the first tests of Prime Minister Tony Blair's vastly reduced majority after leading the Labour Party to victory in a third successive General Election. [06 May 2005]
ID card benefits were exaggerated, admits government
News The UK government has admitted that it exaggerated the benefits of ID cards by claiming they would be a panacea for identity theft, benefit fraud and terrorism. According to reports in today's newspapers, McNulty told the seminar: "Perhaps in the... [04 Aug 2005]
