ID cards

News The UK passport agency has dumped its long troubled and costly second-generation e-passport project.

News Prime Minister Gordon Brown defends technology such as databases and CCTV, saying they are needed to take on new threats.

News A Home Affairs report has called on the government to guard against a "surveillance society".

News A scheme which would allow national ID cards to be used across Europe for the use of public services is launched.

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News The controversial ID card scheme has signed framework contracts with CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM and Thales for the £2 billion project.

News Microsoft finally gives up on its long and protracted takeover bid. We also looked at ID cards, sewer broadband, lie detectors, future wireless, and a new botnet king is crowned.

News In its biannual report the IPS has estimated that the cost of the ID card scheme has risen by nearly a third.