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Thursday, October 30th, 2008Claims that identity cards will protect against terrorism are 'absolute bunkum' - says an expert at the government's intelligence agency. JOHN HIGGINSON The £4billion card scheme is really part of Labour's agenda to cut costs and bureaucracy by ensuring public bodies can share information, said Harvey Mattinson, a senior consultant at spy station GCHQ. 'You cannot share information without identity authentication,' he told the Society of IT Management's ...
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Pilots ready to seek legal action over ID cards
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008The British Airline Pilots Association union has warned it may seek a judicial review of the government's ID cards scheme to prevent pilots being forced to carry identity cards. By Natasha Lomas | As part of a phased introduction of ID cards, the government has stipulated that people working in certain 'sensitive areas' such as airports will be required to hold an identity card from mid-2009. Foreign nationals will also have ...
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Tories attack Labour surveillance schemes
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Kablenet.com | Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, has criticised the ID-card scheme, among other government projects, in his speech at the Conservative conference. In Birmingham on Tuesday, Grieve said the public is "fed up with the creeping growth of a surveillance society which intrudes into their private lives and loses their personal data". He said the government had "created the worst of all worlds", by ...
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Younger teens ‘to get ID cards’
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Identity cards could be handed out to children as young as 14, a home office minister has suggested. The first ID cards are due to be offered to 16 and 17-year-olds from 2010 as part of a plan to introduce the controversial scheme in stages. But Meg Hillier said the age range was still "up for grabs" and could be lowered "if they prove popular". She also said the scheme might be ...
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Government whittles down ID scheme suppliers
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008By Nick Heath | The government has taken another step towards tying up which companies will be in charge of the UK ID cards scheme. The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has further whittled down the companies shortlisted to deliver parts of the ID card system and passport-application scheme. IBM and Thales are through to the next round of discussions for a £500m ...
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ID scheme plans 50,000 cards by April
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008The National Identity Scheme will produce just 50,000 cards in its first few months – and has yet to define the role or budget of its commissioner. In response to a parliamentary written question from Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary Chris Huhne, home secretary Jacqui Smith said that about 50,000 identity cards will be issued between the scheme's launch for foreign nationals between November and April 2009. "Volumes will rise rapidly ...
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Lib Dems would scrap ID Cards to fund radical police reforms
Friday, September 5th, 2008The Liberal Democrats yesterday accused both Labour and the Conservatives of ducking the hard decisions on police reform in favour of a sentencing arms race, as they launched their proposals for fundamental reform of the way the police are run. The ideas, outlined in the paper Cutting Crime: Catching Criminals With Better Policing, highlight the urgent need to move the criminal justice debate away from what sounds tough to what actually ...
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ID cards for foreigners from 25 November
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008The UK Border Agency has given a start date to compulsory identity cards, for foreign nationals applying to stay in the country as students or through marriage From 25 November, applicants from outside the European Economic Area in these two categories will have to travel to one of six centres to enrol in the National Identity Scheme, which will include having their fingerprints and a photograph taken....
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Pledge: Refuse To Comply With ID Scheme
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008From the Blog of Kev: I will refuse to comply with any compulsary ID card scheme. but only if 1,000 other UK people will do the same. Deadline to pledge 31st December 2008, pledge creator Ken Hall
In light of the government's proven incapability to guarantee the security of personal data and the ...
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Calls to drop ID card plans after prisoner data blunder
Sunday, August 24th, 2008The Government was under pressure today to abandon its ID card plans after one of the main firms involved in the project lost thousands of criminals' personal details. The names, addresses and expected release dates of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales were on a computer memory stick lost by Home Office external contractor PA Consulting. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the loss was "completely unsatisfactory", adding that the information should ...
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ID card ‘propaganda’ backfires as students revolt
Tuesday, 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 ...
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Older generation could scupper £4.4bn National Identity Scheme
Saturday, 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 ...
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Cloned e-passports fiasco renews calls for £4.7bn ID card scheme to be axed
Thursday, 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 ...
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First UK ID card contract with Thales worth £18m
Monday, 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 ...
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ID scheme hit for shifting cost to citizens
Saturday, 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 ...
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