Electronic Frontier FoundationDec 3
We cannot base our human rights on the government’s mere promise to uphold them. The UK government must listen to the public and civil society organizations in the country and say no to digital ID. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/uk-has-it-wrong-digital-id-heres-why
The UK Has It Wrong on Digital ID. Here’s Why.

In late September, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his government’s plans to introduce a new digital ID scheme in the country to take effect before the end of the Parliament (no later than August 2029). The scheme will, according to the Prime Minister, “cut the faff” in...

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@eff is it possible for digital ID of any kind to still respect privacy?

By that I mean, the current version is "virtual". Could it be done as a physical card; like a cross between a UK driver's license card, and a chip-and-pin bank card?

In particular using, for example, public key cryptography to sign details on the card.
This has a few benefits, including trust that the ID is genuine, and being able to exclude the government from auth checks (because sig validity can be done locally).

Dec 3 at 3:36pmWeb