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UK national ID cards database goes live
The database that underpins the UK's controversial ID card scheme is up and running, according to the government's identity commissioner Joseph Pilling. He told the home affairs committee that 538 ...25 Nov 2009
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National ID card linked to NI numbers, goverment says
The national identity card is linked to people's national insurance number, the government has confirmed. Home secretary Alan Johnson said NI numbers are one of several data items that are part of ...07 Jan 2010
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National ID card prototype released
The Home Office has unveiled a prototype ID card, a few weeks before the first cards will be issued to foreign migrants. The credit-card sized ID card will have an electronic chip with biometric de...25 Sep 2008
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UK national ID card cloned in 12 minutes
The prospective national ID card was broken and cloned in 12 minutes, the Daily Mail revealed this morning.06 Aug 2009
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UK Border Agency to introduce postal visa system following IT failure
The UK Border Agency (UKBA) may introduce a postal visa service for foreign nationals, following the outage of its identity card computer system. Hundreds of foreign nationals queuing for biometri...04 May 2012
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Public two to one against national ID card database
A poll conducted by ICM for anti-national ID card group NO2ID shows almost two-thirds of the public are opposed...12 Dec 2008
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TUC threatens industrial action against national ID cards
The TUC in Brighton this week has pledged to resist the national ID card scheme "with all means at its disposal", including industrial and legal action....11 Sep 2008
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Thales bags £18m deal for national ID card scheme
French defence systems engineering firm Thales has won the first contract for the UK's National Identity Scheme. Under the terms of the deal - signed today - Thales will work with the Identity and ...01 Aug 2008
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Gordon Brown sticks to his guns over national ID cards
Prime minister Gordon Brown has again defended the introduction of national ID cards, in a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). He told an IPPR conference yesterday, "I believ...18 Jun 2008
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Government may drop national fingerprint database for national ID card
The UK government's national identity card scheme appears to be in further chaos, after a leaked document shows the government is considering dropping the planned national fingerprint database tied...28 Jan 2008
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US national ID card scheme runs into trouble
A US government scheme to introduce a federal ID card for US citizens, dubbed Real ID, has run into problems in Congress. The Department of Homeland Security scheme plans to use states' driver's li...23 Jan 2008
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Government changes national ID card plan
The government has ditched plans to build a new computer system for its national identity cards scheme. Information will instead be held on three existing and separate databases, said home secretar...19 Dec 2006
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IT news round-up podcast for 10 March: National ID card scheme faces new criticism
Stories around the government’s controversial 5.4 billion pound national identity card scheme feature prominently this week. Ian Grant reports on the findings of the Crosby report into ID cards, wh...10 Mar 2008
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Foreign nationals could be kicked out of country for not carrying new national ID card
Foreign nationals living in Britain who boycott the introduction of a biometric identity card later this year, could lose their right to stay under government proposals, reports The Guardian. A Hom...26 Feb 2008
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Government offered alternative national ID scheme that doesn’t require national database
A biometric security firm is pitching a national identity scheme designed to allay fears caused by the government holding and trying to manage a national identity base. The biometric smartcard syst...26 Nov 2007
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National ID card databases 'should be open source'
The UK government’s national ID card system should be based on open-source standards to build flexibility into the scheme, says a leading identity standards organisation...22 Sep 2005
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National ID card project 'could cost £19bn'
The London School of Economics (LSE) says the government’s national ID card scheme could cost up to £19.2bn to implement, more than twice the government’s current estimate...27 Jun 2005
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US dismisses national ID cards
US president George W Bush will not pursue a national identification card system despite calls from parts of government and industry following the 11 September terrorist attacks. "We are not even c...30 Sep 2001
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Data watchdog's alarm at national ID card plan
The information commissioner Richard Thomas has told the Home Office that he is becoming increasingly alarmed about its plans for a compulsory biometric national identity card. The scheme goes way ...02 Aug 2004
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BCS warns Commons inquiry of concerns about national ID cards
Concerns about government proposals for a national identity card scheme have been expressed by the BCS to a Home Affairs Committee inquiry. "The risk of failure is significantly increased because t...03 Jun 2004
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