UK gov scraps youth ID card
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IT problems abort pilot The government has scrapped its carrot and stick id card for yoofs after realising that the costs of developing its computer system were beginning to outweigh the benefits it could deliver.â¦
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Antisocial behaviour register gets thumbs-up A nuisance youth database described as "an educational tool" has won parents' approval, according to police in Clacton.â¦
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A Â£141m computer system used to process benefits payments is scrapped, the BBC learns.
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The British government is considering "coercion" tactics to force people to get biometric identity cards, according to a report to be published in a Sunday newspaper based on a leaked document.
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The grade school that required students to wear radio frequency identification badges that can track their every move has ended the program because the company that developed the technology pulled out.
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Plans for a new compulsory ID card scheme are unveiled during the Queen's Speech.
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Microsoft Passport Dumped By Ebay  Microsoftâs technology for identity-management on the Internet in the form of Passport took another major beating today when eBay announced that they are discontinuing their support for it. Users of eBay would not be able to use their Passport Ids to login to eBay starting late ...
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He's artful, but lacking in detail David Cameron, the straight-talking public relations executive who runs the Conservative party, gave the reasons why he opposes ID Cards yesterday.â¦
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The U.K. government is proposing legislation that would create a system of ID cards with embedded biometric identifiers that everyone living in the U.K. would be required to have by 2011 or 2012.
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Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke has hit out at Tory leader David Cameron in a passionate defence of identity cards.Comment
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Absent parents refusing to support their children could be 'named and shamed' on a UK government website.
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The costs of the ID cards scheme can be cut "quite substantially" by using existing databases, says a minister.
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Not getting any more popular The British public is evenly split on ID cards - 47 per cent think they're a good idea while 50 per cent think not.â¦
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Privacy advocates say flap over Real ID Act requirements was the last straw for a bill to overhaul immigration laws.
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Microsoft's decision to reposition its .Net Passport identification system comes as Monster is dropping support for the authentication service.
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Plans for a wider rollout of identity cards to British nationals appear to have been delayed for three years.
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UK mesh pioneer taken out of administration