Opponents say they are universal identity cards, that the government won't keep the necessary database secure and that such cards will fail to control either identity fraud or illegal immigration. The research, which was conducted on behalf of...
Every piece of hardware and software must be approved and every possible configuration between equipment and cards must be certified. More than 120,000 people in Northampton, which is demographically representative of the UK average, spent three...
And with a proliferation of removable storage media such as compact flash cards and SD cards falling in price the problem of sensitive data being discarded is getting worse. Data recovery specialist Disklabs recently bought 100 second-hand hard...
With similarities to the Oyster Card programme running in London, the system being introduced on Norwegian State Railways (NSB), by Arcontia and Unified Consulting, will see commuters able to pay for travel using RFID-chipped smart cards.
The government's ID card scheme is a classic example of the problems that need to be addressed when a universal service is required. There is no doubt there are real benefits to the introduction of an ID card - which I support - but until the...
And Barclays is celebrating this fact with a nostalgic trip down memory lane and has furnished us with a list of everything you would ever need to know about debit cards. For example, would you believe there are currently 68 million debit cards in...