This content is contributed or sourced from third parties but has been subject to Finextra editorial review. Digital ID holds the promise of improved lives, services and systems for citizen, consumer ...

The U.K.’s right and left-wing parties have reached an uncommon consensus: they oppose British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s latest attempt to curb illegal immigration through mandatory digital ID ...

At the crossroads between their ICE-powered past and the zero emissions future, countless legacy carmakers may have chosen irrelevance – or so say certain experts. But not all of them are abandoning ...

Keir Starmer’s announcement that the UK will introduce mandatory digital ID for all citizens has sparked furious debate about their use, effectiveness and threat to privacy. In making its case, the ...

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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit of the Manufacturing Futures Lab at University College London in London, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (Henry Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP ...

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer, has announced that new digital identification cards will brought in to try to help tackle immigration issues in the country, mainly by ...

The U.K. may be about to get even more dystopian. Prime Minister Keir Starmer proposed a plan last week that would require every adult in the United Kingdom to have a digital ID in order to work in ...

The UK's new digital ID card scheme, announced by Keir Starmer on September 26, has two big questions swirling around it. Is it a solution to illegal immigration? And will it give the government too ...

Tim Holmes does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Prime minister Keir Starmer has announced plans for a compulsory national digital identity scheme that will see all citizens and residents with a digital ID by the end of this Parliament. The scheme ...

On 25 September 2025, Nigel Farage unleashed a thunderbolt on X, decrying Keir Starmer's mandatory 'Brit card' digital ID as a gateway to state surveillance that empowers control over citizens while ...