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Italy spends $15m on ID cards

News California-based LaserCard claims to have received purchase orders from the Italian government of $7m for biometric citizen cards and $8m for foreigner ID cards.... [10 Aug 2005]

EU: No common protection scheme for ID card data

News While the use of electronic identity cards offers opportunities for governments to be more efficient in providing services to citizens, there is the risk that the citizen data collected... [06 Feb 2009]

CIO Jury: IT leaders slam national ID card plans

News We badly need a national standard to link to other citizen-centric systems developments, including citizen identification and authentication, and the national ID card... [27 May 2005]

Nothing to fear over ID cards privacy, says passport chief

News The man in charge of the government's national ID cards scheme has dismissed claims the cards will lead to a personal audit trail of each citizen's movements and... [06 Mar 2007]

ID Cards on Trial: More costs emerge

News But Home Office minister Tony McNulty has now confirmed that figure is just the unit cost of producing a passport and ID card "based on 2005 to 2006 prices" and that the actual charge to each... [08 Jun 2005]

'ID card guinea pig' pilots ready to call in lawyers

News Additional primary legislation would be required for ID cards to become compulsory for every UK citizen or resident and, according to the government, there is no timetable for its... [13 Oct 2008]

ID cards bill in crisis after major defeat in Lords

News The Earl of Erroll, who has a background in computer security and identity management, said the ID cards will provide no benefit to the citizen and joked that people... [17 Jan 2006]

French home secretary announces chip ID card

News To access a particular service, a citizen will be able to use the authentication tool of his choice, with the level of security it provides corresponding to the level of sensitivity of the service," it reads, "Some... [01 Oct 2003]

Will ID cards contain DNA sample?

News The government's proposed biometric ID card and the national DNA database could eventually be combined to produce a genetic 'fingerprint' for every UK citizen, according to industry... [27 Nov 2003]

ID cards: "A disaster waiting to happen"

News The man in charge of the government's national ID cards scheme quashed claims earlier this week that the cards will lead to a Big Brother state with each citizen's... [09 Mar 2007]

One billion Chinese citizens to get smartcards by 2004

News The government is citing security concerns as the prime motivation for the roll-out - previous plastic ID cards were thought too easy to fake - and expects the card to carry a limited... [13 Aug 2003]

"Technically unsafe" national ID card plans slammed

News The report's authors argue the government should scrap the current bill and start again from scratch to develop an ID card that is "a real benefit to the citizen rather than being a... [21 Mar 2005]

Former US spy slams UK's ID card plans

News He said: "If we take a cursory glance at Israel you can't argue that an Israeli citizen is safer today than they were 30 years ago. In an interview with silicon.com in London last week, just after the House of Lords... [23 Jan 2006]

ID theft - very 21st century, very serious

Comment If this innocent, by all accounts mild-mannered, senior citizen can be embroiled in a Kafkaesque saga then it could happen to any of us. With these they acquire new credit cards, open new accounts, and... [26 Feb 2003]

Judge calls for "universal" national DNA database

News A senior judge has called for a universal national DNA database containing the details of every UK citizen and visitor to the country. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards N is for National... [05 Sep 2007]

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