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 ...

Digital identity cards will be mandatory for every worker in the UK under new plans announced by the prime minister on Friday. The card is the Labour government’s latest attempt to crack down on ...

The PM has been warned that "the sprint towards digital by default is chaotic, unfair and inefficient" as a petition against digital ID cards grows.

ID cards were made mandatory in the country in 2002 and initially took the form of a physical smart card containing data for its individual holder. Since then, Estonians have used their cards to ...

If a phone is lost or stolen, the digital ID credentials can be ‘immediately revoked and reissued, providing better security than traditional physical documents,’ the government said.

A decade and a half ago, the last Labour government’s rollout of ID cards was scrapped amid an outcry over an invasion of privacy. Alex Ross asks what has changed today, and whether a Brit card is the ...

Updating and printing your Voter ID card online in India is a simple process, thanks to the Election Commission's digital initiatives ...

The scheme is being billed by No 10 as a way of cracking down on migrants who do not have the right to earn wages in the UK.

Starmer’s digital ID plan has split opinion, but many in our community have drawn on experiences overseas to argue ID cards are practical and long overdue ...

The Government aims to take the best aspects of the digital identification systems that are already up and running globally ...

The scheme requires all adults to hold free digital IDs, stored in a GOV.UK wallet app, which employers and landlords would scan against a central database to verify rights to work or rent. Physical ...