UK PM appointing MP Josh Simons lead for national digital ID: report
UK PM Kier Starmer has selected a champion for his proposed but yet-undetailed mandatory digital identity system. Josh Simons, first-term…
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Hippo Digital finds inclusion, clarity gaps at root of UK digital ID trust problem
Most UK citizens do not understand what a digital identity wallet means: While some conflate it with Google and Apple…
Rumored plan to expand UK digital ID to newborns gives Tories chance to attack
There is fresh panic in the UK over rumors that the government is considering extending its digital ID scheme to…
MPs avoid substantive debate on UK digital ID to flog hobby horses at committee hearing
The UK’s first parliamentary debate on national digital identity presented the irony of a roomful of people representing a whole…
Dialogue between UK government, digital identity providers gets restart next week
Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones will meet with UK digital identity providers next Tuesday, December 2 for…
UK digital ID plan includes local councils, maybe private sector, no new funding
The UK’s government digital ID plan continues to take shape piecemeal, with an expansion to cover a new layer of…
Views on UK digital ID scheme multiply among industry, public, privacy advocates
Government-led digital identity and the UK have a complicated relationship. It comes with a past: the national identity card plan…
Physical ID, private sector alternatives pitched to save UK digital identity plan
The UK government’s plans for a national identification scheme have so far focused largely on online processes carried out with…
UK dependencies have choice on national digital ID, need details
The UK Channel Islands will be included in the Kingdom’s mandatory digital ID scheme, but only if they want to….
‘The Starmer Paradox’ pits UK national digital ID plan against its stated purpose
If the enforcement of mandatory right to work (RtW) checks with digital ID will significantly reduce the flow of illegal…
