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ID cards will be secure, insists Home Office
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]
US moves closer to electronic ID cards
News The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved a sweeping set of rules aimed at forcing states to issue all adults federally approved electronic ID cards, including driver's licences. The measure, called the Real ID Act, says that driver's... [11 Feb 2005]
Dear silicon.com... Ageism, broadband row, ID cards…
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]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
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]
Opinion: ID cards - a fiasco waiting to happen
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]
Tamper-Resistant Biometric IDs
White Paper 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]
Blunkett presses ahead with national biometric ID card plan
News The cards will carry a person's personal details, a photo, some form of biometric information such as a fingerprint, a PIN for authorisation and national insurance, driving licence and passport numbers. [23 May 2003]
£30 cap on standalone ID card for the poor
News In a rallying call, before next Tuesday's crucial House of Commons vote on the Identity Cards Bill, Clarke said: "In future, the recording of biometrics, such as fingerprints, iris patterns or facial image means that we will have a much stronger... [14 Oct 2005]
Data protection watchdog blasts ID card database
News The ID cards bill is due to begin its passage through the House of Lords next week where it is expected to get a tougher reception than it did from MPs. The government's Identity Cards Bill, which was given the green light by a majority of MPs... [28 Oct 2005]
ID card opponents won't give up without a fight
News However, despite Davies' assertion, there appears to be growing support for the ID cards - as long as they achieve what they set out to achieve. Of those in favour of ID cards, 65.7 per cent of respondents to the silicon survey said the only people... [26 Apr 2004]
ID card plans are back and 'more popular'
News David Porter, head of security and risk at Detica, told silicon.com the problem of electoral fraud is one issue which "throws the spotlight back onto ID cards" - most notably the problem of people voting in person with no required proof of identity. [25 May 2005]
Former US spy slams UK's ID card plans
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]
Leader: Blunkett should rethink ID card "folly"
Leader But it is when you're talking about 60 million ID cards which are the only means to verify each person's identity. Home Secretary David Blunkett threw down the gauntlet to privacy activists and ID card opponents today claiming that the store... [17 Nov 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Who am I?
Comment Of course ID cards and other documents all suffer from the problem that they are hard to connect with an actual person. The concept of compulsory national ID or entitlement cards (choose name as you see fit) has split public opinion. [22 Apr 2003]
Government "in denial" about true ID card costs
News But in an as-yet-unpublished report the LSE is now claiming that could rocket by another £5bn to £10bn because of the cost of updating all government department IT systems in order to make them work with ID cards. [03 Nov 2005]
