Millions Will Refuse ID Cards Home Office expects as many as 15m to risk criminal prosecution in refusing to give personal data or show on demand ID cards 10.04.07 Times, Administrative Law, Home Office

ID Cards Will Help Exclude 'Foreigners' Home Office is boasting that ID Cards will be used to exclude immigrants from education and healthcare Times Scheme will cost £5.4b 10.10.06 ePolitix, Education Law, Immigration, Medical Law

ID Card Plans Likely to Fail Senior civil servants David Foord at IGC and Peter Smith at IPS admit ID card scheme is 'set to fail', may be 10 - 15 yrs before full plans are rolled out Sunday Times Leaked emails 10.07.06 Sunday Times, Infant Death, Terror

Art of Steal Notorious confidence artist Frank Abagnale is in UK to advise banks on fraud, says national ID cards will worsen identity theft, rising at a rate of 20% every three months 09.05.06 Times, Fraud, Identity Theft

Rush for ID Cards Multi-billion pound procurement plan for ID cards to be pushed forward as quickly as possible, govt wants system in place before next election 18.04.06 Financial Times, Identity Theft

Identity Card Act Compromise in Lords allows Identity Card Act to pass into law today, applicants for passports will need to give biometric data but will not need to buy ID card until 2010 31.03.06 Times, Home Office

ID Cards Key Commons vote opens way to compulsory ID cards within two years, anyone applying for passport will be required to give biometric information for central database 14.02.06 Guardian

ID Fraud Dutch firm Riscure claims to have cracked encryption used in biometric code on passport, scanned from 12 feet, suggests UK ID cards may not be secure 02.02.06 This Is London

ID Cards Useless Ex-MI5 boss Stella Rimmington says ease of forging documents will leave ID Cards 'useless' 17.11.05 BBC, Identity Theft Links

ID Cards Clarke to guarantee that personal data on ID cards will not go beyond what is already on passports 18.10.05 Guardian, Data Protection Links