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ID-Cards« Previous EntriesID card ‘propaganda’ backfires as students revoltTuesday, August 19th, 2008By Etan Smallman | Trust Britain’s youth to be characteristically ungrateful. The Government goes to all the effort of making a website for 16 to 25- year-olds to express their views on identity cards, and all they get in return is a solid mixture of scorn, sneering and scepticism smattered across their fancy new forums. In a bid to get the country’s youngsters on board the controversial scheme, the ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsOlder generation could scupper £4.4bn National Identity SchemeSaturday, August 16th, 2008By Ian Grant | The cost of the government's controversial £4.4bn national identity card scheme, could rise significantly because of the difficulties reading fingerprints of older people, a government watchdog says.Chief Scientist John Beddington, chairman of the Biometrics Assurance Group, an independent government advisor, said in his 2007 annual report that elderly people often had hard-to-read fingerprints. This might produce ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsCloned e-passports fiasco renews calls for £4.7bn ID card scheme to be axedThursday, August 7th, 2008Opposition MPs accused the Government last night of being naive in believing that new microchipped passports would be foolproof against criminals involved in identity theft. After The Times disclosed that new passports could be cloned and manipulated in minutes and would then be accepted as genuine, MPs also gave warning of serious implications for the security of the Government's £4.7 billion identity card scheme. The identity card project, which starts this year ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsFirst UK ID card contract with Thales worth £18mMonday, August 4th, 2008By Jeremy Kirk | Thales has won a four-year contract worth £18 million for the UK's national ID card programme, which aims to keep closer track of its citizens to cut down on crime and fraud. The contract is the first to be awarded, according to the UK Identity and Passport Service (IPS). Thales will design and test the National Identity Register, a database that will hold peoples' personal ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsID scheme hit for shifting cost to citizensSaturday, August 2nd, 2008By Jimmy Burns | The Home Office on Tuesday faced claims of “creative accounting” as it pledged to cut nearly £1bn ($2bn) from the cost of the identity card scheme. According to the latest official estimates, a broadening of the private sector role in the scheme to include involvement in biometric fingerprinting, as already promised by ministers, will contribute to savings of £975m by 2017, the date by which ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsID cards - compulsory or not?Saturday, July 19th, 2008By David Meyer | It's not going to be compulsory to carry around ID cards. Honestly. So said Stephen Harrison, policy director at the ID & Passport Service, when asked today at the Westminster eForum on ID cards, surveillance and data protection. Further questioning elicited more explanation: no, you won't have to carry it around all the time, only when you want to use public services. Then: it's "not a tool ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsID cards won’t solve society’s biggest problemMonday, July 14th, 2008As the current spate of murders and knife-related attacks reaches a new high with another four violent deaths, we should maybe get things in a proper context. Millions of pounds are being committed to the prevention of terrorism, not least of which is the proliferation of CCTV cameras and the government's determination to force ID cards on us all. To my knowledge, few if any of these recent stabbings have ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsSpin Doctor Behind Davis’ Campaign Promotes ID CardsThursday, July 10th, 2008By Andy Rowell and Michael Gillard | A spin doctor behind David Davis and his much-vaunted “freedom” campaign against creeping state surveillance is an influential figure in the worldwide promotion of identity cards. Kevin Bell is vice-president of Fleishman-Hillard, a global public relations firm representing security companies that have introduced ID cards in the United States and Spain. Opposition to the Government’s move to introduce a British ID card is a ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsUK workers campaign against ID cardsWednesday, July 9th, 2008PT | Representatives of the UK’s aviation workers say they are being used as political pawns to further the UK government's controversial ID cards programme. The British Air Transport Association (BATA) says aviation workers are being used as guinea pigs for the scheme. ID cards for airside workers, those who work beyond airport security checks, will become compulsory in 2009. Roger ... tagged ID-Cards and USA-NewsTop airline bosses launch assault on airport ID card planWednesday, July 2nd, 2008By John Lettice | The bosses of the UK's major airlines have attacked plans to force airport workers to enrol in the national ID card scheme, claiming that "the UK aviation industry is being used for political purposes on a project which has questionable public support."* If anything the move, they say, could reduce security by adding a "false sense of security to our ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsID scheme: the truths, half-truths and deceptionsTuesday, July 1st, 2008By Geraint Bevan | THE organisation NO2ID will not be represented officially inside the Home Office's secretive ID consultation at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel in Edinburgh today. Despite repeated requests, officials have decided that my fellow campaigners and I are not "stakeholders" in the delivery of the glorious post-ID future. Shame. To those people who have been invited to praise the ID scheme to high heaven and develop strategies for coercion, ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsNine held in ID card demoTuesday, July 1st, 2008NINE protesters were arrested in Edinburgh yesterday following a demonstration at government plans to introduce ID cards. The arrests, all in connection with breach of the peace offences, were made at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel. The North Bridge hotel was the venue for a discussion on the scheme between Meg Hillier, the Home Office minister for identity, and business and local-authority representatives. All those arrested were members of NO2ID, an anti-ID ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsTougher terror laws actually enhance freedoms, claims BrownTuesday, June 17th, 2008 By James Kirkup | The Prime Minister used a speech in London to defend his Government's record on civil liberties in the light of last week's Labour rebellion over the detention of terror suspects and the high-profile challenge being mounted by David Davis, the former Tory front bencher.
Some 36 Labour MPs last week voted against the Government's plans to hold ...
tagged Big-Brother, ID-Cards and UK-NewsCommons report: British “surveillance society”Saturday, June 14th, 2008 QAS | The Commons' home affairs committee has submitted a report warning of the danger of Britain becoming a surveillance society. The report calls on the government to promise the proposed ID card scheme will not be used to spy on people.
"We recommend that the Home Office produce a report on the intended functions of the national identity scheme in ...
tagged Big-Brother, ID-Cards and UK-NewsMPs voice fears over ID cardsSunday, June 8th, 2008 By Brian Brady | Compulsory identity cards could be used to spy on people, MPs warn today. Members of the Home Affairs Select Committee say they are concerned that the way the authorities use sensitive data gathered in the multibillion-pound programme could gradually "creep" in scope to include covert surveillance.
The all-party committee also urges ministers to make plans for how ...
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