The British government says its ID card database will become a national population register of basic personal information that its agencies can use to verify identity. It has called for the ...

The British government has made a U-turn on controversial plans for a single ID card database. Instead of one huge, new National Identity Register (NIR) database, it will now be spread across three ...

U.K. Prime Minster Tony Blair moved to quell growing concern over the security of the country’s national identity program by threatening jail time for anyone caught tampering with the project’s ...

Government also calls for national register of under-16s... The government says the ID card database will become a national population register of basic personal information for the public sector to ...

The U.K. government’s high-tech plans for ID cards using biometric technology was announced Tuesday in the Queen’s Speech, amid the traditional pomp and pageantry of the annual opening of the U.K.

LONDON — The U.K. government’s high-tech plans for ID cards using biometric technology was announced Tuesday in the Queen’s Speech, amid the traditional pomp and pageantry of the annual opening of the ...