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• 6 Aug - Gordon Brown Would Share ID Info With Businesses
• 4 Aug - EU Biometric Passport Chips Cloned
• 3 Aug - MPs And IT Suppliers Criticise ID Scheme

• 24 Jul - Passport charges rise - first steps in ID program
• 23 Jul - Another Leaked Document Reveals ID Risks
• 9 Jul - Leaked Government Emails Predict Delays And Failure For ID Scheme

• 22 Jun - Public Sector Union Votes Against ID Cards

• 19 Jun - DVLA Makes Millions Selling Addresses
• 15 Jun - Blunkett Thinks ID Cards Should Be Used to Track People
• 11 Jun - ID Card Scheme Falling Behind Schedule

• 22 May - Debunking ID & "Illegal Immigration"
• 19 May - ID Fraud From Government Databases

• 11 May - More Function Creep - Harriet Harman Suggests 'Downloading' ID Database for Electoral Roll
• 9 May - Famous fraudster says 6 months to forge ID card

• 3 May - Industry and academia line up to bash ID cards
• 3 May - What a boarding pass could tell an identity fraudster

• 28 Apr - Contactless RFID chips in ID cards

• 23 Apr - Government wants medical data on Identity Register - against BMA advice
• 21 Apr - IT suppliers concerned at poor planning for ID cards

The other identity register: the Personal Identification Project

• 30 Mar - Identity Cards Bill passes Lords & Commons with dubious compromise
• 23 Mar - Home Office "not sure how to implement" Identity database

• 16 Mar - Parliamentary Ping-Pong - Lords & Commons Battle Over ID Cards
• 16 Mar -ID Cards Will Use 'bog-standard' Chip & PIN

• 7 Mar - Dangers of the ID Database
• 6 Mar - Lords Vote Against ID - But Make Crucial Concessions
• 6 Mar - Biometric Passport Launched So No Need for ID!

• 13 Feb - Identity Cards Bill passes - and we won't have any choice about ID cards if we want passports
• 10 Feb - US Company implants RFID chips in workers

• 09 Feb - MPs to vote again on ID cards next week
• 02 Feb - £1.7 Billion? Why the ID Fraud Figures Don't Add Up
• 30 Jan - Dutch Biometric Passports Hacked
• 30 Jan - ID Card Ministers Won't Say RFID

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News stories not directly about ID cards but about related issues, e.g. privacy, civil liberties etc.

• 2006-05-5- Five Tales of RFID Hacking

• 2006-04-20 Concerns over GPS child tracking
• 2006-03-17 Too Much CCTV Footage For Police To Cope With
• 2006-03-08 Google Plans To Store Contents Of Users' Computers
• 2006-03-01 Online Checks Of Child Worker Records

• 2006-02-12 Village Voice-USA-War On Privacy
• 2006-02-09 US Plans Massive Data Sweep
• 2006-02-07 Company Blames Ex-Employee For Data Leak
• 2006-02-06 Newspaper Leaks Subscriber Credit Card Info
• 2006-02-06 Confidential patient data sent to wrong company
• 2006-02-05 Using Mobile Phones To Track Employees
• 2006-02-05 USA: Surveillance Net Yields Few Suspects

• 2006-01-13 Peeping tom CCTV workers jailed
• 2006-01-12 Privacy And Security Worries About Medical Records Database
• 2006-01-05 37 percent of black men on DNA database
• 2006-01-04 DNA database continues to expand

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