OGC shreds identity scheme documents
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Drastic measures to bar scrutiny The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has taken to treating its "Gateway" reviews of government IT projects like classified official documents as pressure mounts to have them opened to public scrutiny.â¦
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A Microsoft  document format  that may be adopted as an international standard this weekend  is a ploy to lock in customers, who could lose control over  their own data in a worst-case scenario, critics say.
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A man charged in connection with identity theft had his social security number exposed on the court's digital records system.
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The Web site of identity-fraud suspects operating as the Shadowcrew has been replaced by information about alleged members' arrests.
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The tradition of identification parades at the police station is to end as technology takes over.
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ID theft milestone reached The total number of US customer records compromised as a result of security blunders has hit the 100m milestone.â¦
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The U.S. Secret Service said it has cracked down on an international ID theft ring that is responsible for more than $14 million in fraud losses.
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The internal menace Security at the British Home Office's Identity and Passport Service (IPS) database has been compromised four times, with individuals' data used inappropriately by Home Office employees and contractors. A fifth breach has hit a Prison Service database.â¦
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Law enforcement officials said yesterday that they have broken up the largest known document fraud ring in Northern Virginia, charging 26 people in a scheme to sell identification to thousands of Indonesian immigrants nationwide.
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Home Secretary John Reid is to publish detailed plans for the controversial national identity card scheme.
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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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Thousands of credit card numbers and other personal data may have been compromised.
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Proved exceptional More than two years after his arrest and subsequent release, techie and some-time Reg contributor David Mery has succeeded in purging the police databases of his fingerprints and DNA.â¦
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Some members discover itâs tough to erase all their information from the site.
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Four CDs with personal details from court cases have gone missing in the post, the government admits.
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Some people have started using registered e-mail systems to prove that specific documents were sent or received.
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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.