Parliament is set to debate the introduction of Digital ID cards in the UK today after a petition with 3,000,000 signatures ...

Reading a paper by the European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) last week on privacy guards in EU ID card schemes raised some interesting questions for me. The thing that jumped out, ...

The first UK ID cards have already been issued - but no UK police officers or border guards have any way of reading the data stored on them. Currently no police stations, border entry points or job ...

In a bid to pilot its emerging digital identity infrastructure, the UK government today launched a digital version of the Armed Forces Veteran Card, marking the first government-issued credential to ...

Digital ID will be rolled out across the UK as part of the government's attempts to tackle illegal working. But how will it work? Will everyone be legally required to have it? What if you don't have a ...

OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings The UK government has finally put a £1.8 billion price ...

In response to the Government’s plan to introduce digital ID cards, Javier Ruiz Diaz, Amnesty International UK’s Technology and Human Rights Lead, said: “The case for ID cards has not been made. It is ...

Thales has won a four-year contract worth £18 million (US$36 million) for the U.K.’s national ID card program, which aims to keep closer track of its citizens to cut down on crime and fraud. The ...

These days, most smartphones are kitted out with facial recognition technology, multiple cameras and wireless charging systems. But back in the 90s we were much more easily impressed, with handsets ...

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