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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Juniors kept in dark, then hung out to dry? Yes Minister HMRC restricted details of its security procedures to senior officials, it has emerged, just weeks after the department pilloried a junior official for loading the UKâs child benefit database onto CDs which were then lost.â¦
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Proposals for identity cards and a population register are opposed by Britain's information watchdog.
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Any bill to make it compulsory for  Britons to get an ID card is "several years" away, Home Office Minister Liam Byrne says.
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The 53-year-old system under which fingerprint evidence is presented in Scotland's courts is abolished.
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David Blunkett is criticised for preparing a marketing campaign for ID cards before MPs back them.
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Invoking a global threat of terrorism, the British government announced plans on Tuesday to introduce national identity cards for the first time since the Second World War.
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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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Database revolt Hundreds of thousands of people will refuse to sign up to the UK Government's planned identity register, according to just-published research. Around eight per cent of those surveyed said they would refuse to sign up to the database even if they are fined.â¦
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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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Just in time for the Olympics The British government is delaying the roll out of the national ID card scheme to UK citizens, according to leaked documents obtained by the Tory party.â¦
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The Tories are to back controversial government plans to introduce ID cards in the UK, the party has said.
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Swaps Big Brother for fraternal triumvirate The UK government has ditched plans to put all our identities on one big database, saying that sticking with existing systems will help cut fraud and save money.â¦
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Put the government on formal notice the Shadow home secretary David Davies has asked the government to agree get-out clauses with companies it contracts to build its ID card systems and databases so that a Conservative government can ditch the scheme.â¦
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Patients are to be given the right to opt out of having information stored on the NHS electronic database.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Online auctioneer eBay will stop supporting Microsoft's .Net Passport identification system by the end of January.
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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¦