ID details 'to help solve crimes'
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Tony Blair says fingerprints collected for ID cards will be cross checked against crime scene prints.
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Fifteen crime suspects whose details were not acted on for a year by the prosecution service are sought by police.
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A top policeman wants the law to make it easier for doctors to identify mentally ill patients who could become killers.
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The community is coming forward with valuable information about the murder of Harry Holland, police say.
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Aim is to help gumshoes spot links between footprints left at crime scenes and footwear worn by suspects.
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Plans are under way for a scheme aimed at encouraging people to inform on others who have a gun illegally.
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Days after getting busted for attempting to get tech support on a printer he allegedly stole in an incident believed to have exposed the personal info of 500 driver's-license applicants, the Missouri man may have had his personal data inadvertently exposed in a data breach. Timothy Scott Short was previously a suspect in an ID-theft incident.
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Britain is launching a database of  thousands of shoes and shoe types next month to help track down  criminals, thought to be the first of its kind in the world.
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Proposals to fingerprint children aged 11 to 15 as part of new passport and ID card plans are being considered.
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This week, a company is launching technology that will make it possible for someone to choose what appears on phones that have Caller ID, the feature for displaying identifying information about an incoming call.
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In an effort to curb fraud, many stores require photo ID or other personal information. By Wendy Tanaka. PHILADELPHIA -- With the holiday presents mostly opened, a trip to the merchandise return counter can&#39;t be far behind.
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As part of the targeted legislation, the commission will consider laws for tackling ID theft later this year.
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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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'Identity reconstruction' still possible Large databases do not adequately protect sensitive personal information, according to a statistics professor in the US, who says that individuals can still be identified despite attempts to anonymise them.â¦
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The UK could "sleepwalk into a surveillance society" as a result of ID cards, the Information commissioner has warned. Send us your views.
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Still horribly intrusive, though A Home Office minister has said the cost of the proposed ID card could be dramatically reduced if the government used its existing databases as a foundation for the scheme.â¦
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A new technique to test DNA samples at crime scenes could help police solve tens of thousands more crimes -- including ones left unsolved and shelved by detectives.