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The police have requested that clubs use a fingerprint scanner is associate with their ID cards and driving licence in a bid to curb alcohol fueled violence. Club patrons can register and then use their fingerprints to gain access to a club. If a crime is committed then the ID’s, fingerprints and photos can be [...]

An incredible 700 underage drinkers have been caught this year in Sheffield attempting to use Fake ID to get into the clubs and pubs in sheffeld. The police say that bouncers have taken passports, birth certificates and driving licences from people trying to pass themselves off as an older friend, brother or other relative. The [...]

The BBC reports that 13 teenagers this month were found to be using fake ID to purchase alcohol or enter a club or a pub in Newquay. They also found that other people’s passports were being used in an attempt to enter the bars. There is a crackdown underway which is hoping to stop anti-social [...]

BBC News writes: “The use of fake IDs at pubs and clubs is being tackled in an initiative across Stoke-on-Trent. The awareness operation involves the Nightlife Partnership, which includes businesses and agencies such as the police and city council.” They go on to say that ID cards will be seized and advice is given to [...]

Steve Bagnall writes in the Daily Post, UNDERAGE drinkers have been using fake ID to bluff their way into pubs and nightclubs. At Liquid Nightclub in Wrexham alone 20 bogus passports and 30 counterfeit drivers licences have been seized. Now the county has launched the “Don’t Be a Fake campaign. Again, the usual consequence is that [...]

The Security Industry Authority is supporting a new Home Office campaign, which addresses young adults using fake or false identification when attempting to enter pubs and clubs. The initiative, in association with the Proof of Age Scheme (PASS) advises young people that if they are caught using fake, or someone else’s ID, they could have [...]

Jill Insley writes in the Guardian,

To show how easy it is to obtain fraudulent documents using anyone’s details, CPP applied for four official-looking proofs of ID using David Cameron’s name and Gordon Brown’s photo. As you can see, the results of this unlikely coalition are pretty convincing.

A national identity card is a portable document; usually a plastic card with the owner’s personal information and photo printed onto it, which can be used to confirm the owner details.  In some countries the National Identity Cards have digital information embedded onto the card and make use of biometric techniques such as iris or [...]

Tom Young writes in Computing: It is impossible to tell whether identity cards have been obtained fraudulently, according to the first report by the Office of the Identity Commissioner. Identity Commissioner Sir Joseph Pilling was appointed to oversee the government’s ₤5.4bn National Identity Scheme and issued his first update today. Although widely supportive of the way [...]

The house of Lords has passed an amendment to the current licensing laws.  It is now a legal requirement for the vendor to ask for photo ID if someone appears under the age of 18.  This law will come into effect on 1st October 2010. The law has been critisised by Liberal Democrat Baroness Hamwee who described [...]