Work bill would create new ID database Senate takes up draft legislation creating massive Homeland Security database that would say "yes" or "no" to an employee's eligibility to work.

The government has trimmed back its controversial ID cards plans, ditching a single mega-database to hold all ID card information, and shelving the use of iris-scanning biometrics. The National ...

France plans to create a single, unified database holding the biometric data from the passports and identity cards of 60 million citizens. The measure wasn’t debated in the French National Assembly as ...

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 ...