News on ID Cards, ID Badges and Photo ID Systems: 03/28/2004

Blair eyes identity cards after UK arrests

5:27 AM

LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair indicated on Thursday that Britain would speed up the introduction of compulsory identity (ID) cards following the arrest of nine terror suspects this week.

Full Article from nzherald.co.nz.

Thursday, April 01, 2004

A National ID Card Wouldn't Make Us Safer

5:19 AM

As a security technologist, I regularly encounter people who say the United States should adopt a national ID card. How could such a program not make us more secure, they ask?

Full Article from schneier.com.

Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Parliamentarians want ID cards for displaced Biharis

10:03 AM

National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain on Tuesday said that members of the House should discuss the lack of computerised national identity cards (NIC) to the people of Karachi with the Interior Ministry.

Full Article from dailytimes.com.

Monday, March 29, 2004

China starts issuing Second-generation ID cards

5:56 AM

One hundred residents of Huzhou city in the east China's Zhejiang province received their new computerized ID cards Monday morning, marking the start of China's effort to upgrade its first-generation cards that have been used for nearly 20 years.The second-generation cards were also distributed in east China's Shanghai municipality and Shenzhen city of south China's Guangdong province Monday.

Full Article from Xinhua News.

Sunday, March 28, 2004

Hewitt hits out at ID cards

10:05 AM

The trade and industry secretary has renewed her campaign against Home Office plans for compulsory identity cards.

Full Article from epolitix.com.

Mexican nationals get ID cards

10:04 AM

Hundreds of Mexican nationals living in Kentucky and Indiana, some of them in the United States illegally, stood in line in Louisville yesterday to receive identification cards.

Full Article from courier-journal.com.

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