ID cards: What's the latest?

Government plans to introduce ID cards have taken another battering recently, with suggestions of delays to their introduction and suppliers pulling out of the procurement process.

Confused about where it's going? Or where the whole project started?

The project has never been far from the pages of silicon.com - so here's the pick of our coverage on the government's biometric identity scheme.

Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards
…for "commercial reasons"

Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards

Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans...

A is for Act
B is for Biometrics
C is for Compulsory
D is for Data privacy worries
E is for EDS
F is for Forgery
G is for Government IT
H is for Home Office
I is for Identity and Passport Service
J is for Jury
K is for Hong Kong
L is for London School of Economics
M is for Money
N is for National Identity Register
O is for Other cards
P is for Passports
Q is for Quarter
R is for Refuseniks
S is for Self-destruct
T is for Terrorist
U is for Utility bill
V is for Verification
W is for When
X is for Xenophobia
Y is for Young people
Z is for London Zoo

Students revolt against being ID card guinea pigs
Loans and bank accounts to require card…

ID cards rollout pushed back to 2012
Latest data breaches taking their toll?

PM: Parliament to decide ID cards fate
…but Gordon Brown accused of "dithering"

Debate ID cards 'or scrap them'
Time to think seriously about personal information

Minister calls for ID cards review
HMRC data blunder raises new questions…

ID cards to cost more than £5.6bn
A hefty price to pay...

ID cards not about to be scrapped, says gov't
No U-turn here...

ID cards will be secure, insists Home Office
But what happens if they're not... ?

Still confused? Click here for the lowdown on ID cards in simple terms…