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Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release
News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards U is for Utility bill O is for Other cards Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. The High Court has quashed a ruling that a review of the ID... [14 Apr 2008]
ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill
News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards U is for Utility bill O is for Other cards Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 per cent hike... [11 Apr 2008]
ID cards chief defends u-turn
News The head of Britain's ID cards project and national identity database has defended the government's revised ID card plans in the face of allegations of a u-turn after the project was scaled back. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards [10 Mar 2008]
ID cards: Gov't slaps on fines of up to £1,000
News Airport union Unite recently called for consultation on airport workers being among the first groups in the UK to need ID cards. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards The fines would apply to foreign nationals entering or living in the UK, who will be... [26 Feb 2008]
ID cards plan: Airport union wants answers
News Airport workers are calling for consultation over plans to make them first in line for ID cards. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards A spokesman for the Identity and Passport Service said it made sense to adopt an incremental approach to rolling out... [20 Feb 2008]
ID cards? One in four says no!
News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Opponents of the ID card scheme said the survey of just over 1,000 people, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, showed the government would be "unable to impose" the cards on the population. [06 Feb 2008]
ID cards: What's the latest?
News Click here for the lowdown on ID cards in simple terms… Government plans to introduce ID cards have taken another battering recently, with suggestions of delays to their introduction and suppliers pulling out of the procurement process. [29 Jan 2008]
Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards
News The system has been criticised this week following revelations in leaked draft Home Office documents that the widespread rollout of ID cards could be pushed back to 2012 and that teenagers could be required to have the cards to open a bank account. [25 Jan 2008]
Students revolt against being ID card guinea pigs
News Students have launched a stinging attack on UK government proposals to make young people "guinea pigs" for ID cards. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards U is for Utility bill Leaked Home Office documents reveal teenagers may need an ID card to open a... [24 Jan 2008]
ID cards to cost more than £5.6bn
News The UK's ID cards scheme will cost more than £5.6bn to set up and run over the next 10 years, according to the latest Home Office figures. A £5.43bn price tag covers the total resource costs of providing both ePassports and ID cards to British and... [09 Nov 2007]
ID cards will be secure, insists Home Office
News The Home Office has defended the UK ID cards scheme after security expert Frank Abagnale - a one-time confidence trickster made famous by the Steven Spielberg film, Catch Me If You Can - said the scheme should be scrapped if the government cannot... [25 Oct 2007]
ID cards-based criminal record checks 'are A-OK'
News Plans for a new service using the government's controversial ID cards scheme to speed up criminal records checks have met with approval from volunteers involved in a trial of the tech. The volunteers piloted two potential online services developed... [01 Oct 2007]
Judge calls for "universal" national DNA database
News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards U is for Utility bill O is for Other cards Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. The national DNA database contains the samples of around four... [05 Sep 2007]
£31m pumped into ID card project
News The ID cards scheme has cost more than £30m over the past financial year. During the year ending 31 March 2007, the government spent £30.9m on setting up the National Identity Scheme (NIS) - up from the £27.7m expenditure in the previous year... [30 Jul 2007]
Gov trumpets ePassports successes
News The government's ID cards scheme has not been popular with silicon.com readers and even Conservative Party leader David Cameron pledged to scrap the scheme - and undertake a full-scale review of the £12.4bn NHS IT upgrade project - if the Tories... [13 Jul 2007]
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