The Identity & Passport Service (IPS) has appointed two new consulting firms, Deloitte and Ernst & Young, to help PA Consulting, which up to now has enjoyed the lion's share of consulting business on the National Identity Scheme.
Three guides that set out company directors' liabilities for managing information risk are now available from the Information Assurance Advisory Council website.
The Taiwanese government will start issuing e-passports to its nearly 23 million citizens by the end of 2008 in an effort to tighten border control and reduce the use of forged travel documents.
British police forces are to explore the feasibility of a national database of CCTV images that would be on a par with the existing national databases for DNA and fingerprint samples.
Confidential records from more than 40 global businesses have were freely available to anyone on the web after they were stolen and stored on an unprotected...
Connecting for Health, which runs much of the NHS's £12.4bn National Programme for IT , is expected to come under strong criticism in a report commissioned by the government into the progress of online health records.