ID cards could cost less, minister says
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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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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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New federal security rules for issuing driver's licenses could cost $11 billion to implement, raising concerns among states about paying for the changes, according to a national survey of states released Thursday.
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Top official suggests more "secure" IDs envisioned by controversial law will help pharmacies to ferret out customers buying over-the-counter ingredients to concoct the drug.
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Count them in, count them out, count them all about... Immigration Minister Liam Byrne this week unveiled - to a certain amount of derision - his vision of the ID Card scheme as some sort of 21st Century equivalent of the 19th Century railway network or the 20th Century national electricity grid. It will be pervasive, and in 20 years time it will be a great British institution, "part of the fabric of British life."â¦
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City officials have approved a plan to offer illegal immigrants identification cards that would let them open bank accounts and use other services that may be unavailable without driver's licenses or state-issued IDs.
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PM appears to contradict himself in Commons over whether identity cards will be compulsory
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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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MPs suggest compulsory cards may be shelved as Brown stresses it will be for parliament to decide
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Straight answers not compulsory either For the third time in four days, Gordon Brown has sown doubts about the future of compulsory ID cards for UK citizens. Speaking at prime minister's question time today, Brown confirmed that it was "policy" for ID cards to become compulsory, but added the rider that this was subject to a vote in parliament.â¦
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Gimme shelter US identity theft losses dropped 11.5 per cent last year to $49.3bn, according to a new study.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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Prints might just be needed for 'special' groups a key component of the UK ID card scheme, the central database of fingerprints, may be abandoned, according to a leaked Home Office document obtained by the Observer. The document doesn't suggest entirely scrapping fingerprints, but instead suggests that their value should be assessed for each group of the population enrolled.â¦
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Anyone for an iDcard? The Home Office has tried to frighten people into taking its identity plans seriously by publishing a marketing survey it said proved their passports were easy targets for ruthless criminals.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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Ministers decide to use existing databases for the ID card scheme - scrapping plans for a standalone system.
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Michael Howard plays down reported shadow cabinet rows over the party's decision to back ID cards.