UK retailers have to be smart card-compliant by the end of 2004 and consumers may end up footing the bill. All point-of-sale (POS) devices have to be integrated with a smart card reader which ensures better transaction security.
The identity card I am proposing would not be used to store large amounts of personal data to which government departments or agencies would have unfettered access," he said. There will be strict limits on what is held on the card and what...
Home Secretary David Blunkett is being called upon to incorporate his national ID card proposals into wider strategy to boost the adoption of smart cards for authenticating use of e-government services.
At a gathering sponsored by the Smart Card Alliance, a multi-industry booster group for smart card adoption, Clarke said that at the very least, driver's licences must be made less susceptible to counterfeiting and that incentives for adopting...
The cards, from supplier TSSI, speed up transfer times and minimise unnecessary duplication in administration - prior to the smartcard scheme, junior doctors and medical students often needed to duplicate blood and immunisation tests for every new...
But that is far from the case now, with everything from the turnstiles, accessed using contactless smart card 'Club Cards', to the electronic point-of-sale units at more than 300 catering points all connected to the network.