{"id":6082,"date":"2009-07-10T15:11:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T14:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/uk-news\/ibm-to-build-uk-fingerprints-database\/6082\/"},"modified":"2009-07-10T15:11:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T14:11:16","slug":"ibm-to-build-uk-fingerprints-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/uk-news\/ibm-to-build-uk-fingerprints-database\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM to build UK fingerprints database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ArticleBody\">The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has contracted IBM to build a database to support the Government&#8217;s switch to biometric passports.IBM will also provide a replacement for the UK Border Agency&#8217;s (UKBA) Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint System (IAFS) which holds biometrics collected from visa applicants under a 7 year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The projects will lay the foundations for the UK ID card programme.<\/p>\n<p>James Hall, Chief Executive of the Identity and Passport Service, said, &#8220;This contract will provide a secure database for storing facial and fingerprint images for the next generation of biometric passports and will support the delivery of the National Identity card.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Computer Weekly has previously reported, the UK passport and national identity card programmes have effectively been merged. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/blogs\/tony_collins\/2009\/04\/heading-for-the-200-passport-t-1.html\"><span style=\"color: #0973b6;\">Passport application fees<\/span><\/a> could rise to as much as \u00a3200 to support the project.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has contracted IBM to build a database to support the Government&#8217;s switch to biometric passports.IBM will also provide a replacement for the UK Border Agency&#8217;s (UKBA) Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint System (IAFS) which holds biometrics collected from visa applicants under a 7 year contract. The projects will lay the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1615],"tags":[45],"class_list":{"0":"post-6082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uk-news","7":"tag-database-state"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}