Watchdog attacks ID card scheme
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Proposals for identity cards and a population register are opposed by Britain's information watchdog.
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Plans for a new compulsory ID card scheme are unveiled during the Queen's Speech.
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Costs tied to the country's controversial biometric ID card plan will cause the price of new passports to soar.
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Tracking with a soupcon of fast... The Telegraph reveals that the UK government is plotting fingerprinting of air passengers as a matter of routine, to check the identity of departing passengers and to tighten up border controls for incoming. Which, given the firmness of the regime's plans for ID cards, is scarcely news in the long term - but in the interim, turkeys are apparently being asked to volunteer for Christmas, now.â¦
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Credit card fraudsters are trying to fleece UK punters by tricking them into revealing card security information over the phone.
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Details from chip-and-pin cards could be stolen while shoppers make purchases, scientists say.
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Not compulsion - sign here to end the pain... "Various forms of coercion" could be used to accelerate the rollout of ID cards, the idea being that ID cards will remain 'voluntary' for as long as possible, while not having an ID card will become more and more uncomfortable. This, precisely what the government has intended to do all along, is stated baldly in an Identity &amp; Passport Service leak cited by the Sunday People.â¦
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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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An anti-ID-card advertisement that compares British Prime Minister Tony Blair to the leader of the Third Reich gets a free pass from the Advertising Standards Authority. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: I'd go to jail rather than accept this kind of ID card
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Will Brown sign up to Blair's baby? The Office of Government Commerce has appealed against an order by the Information Tribunal that it must publish official documents that assess the justification for the government's identity card scheme.â¦
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David Blunkett is criticised for preparing a marketing campaign for ID cards before MPs back them.
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Â· Increase to fund consular service, says Foreign Office Â· Bill is underwriting cost of ID cards, say opponents
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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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Crackers Security researchers have highlighted how corrupt bank insiders might be able to obtain bank card PINs using as little as one or two guesses.â¦
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The U.K. government sees a national identity card now making its way through Parliament as a way to fight terrorism, but opponents see it as an expensive waste of time. By Wendy M. Grossman.
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'We will abolish this costly plastic poll tax' Shadow home secretary David Davis has criticised the government's plan to make people travel to interview centres to provide a biometric for the national identity card.â¦