UK government to build digital ID in-house

UK government to build digital ID in-house

: Minister dodges cost questions while promising smartphone-free access and 'robust' verification

The Official UK Digital Identity Panopticon

Chatting with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in December 2025, UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: [M]y ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be …

UK government is designing and installing a Digital Identity Panopticon

By her own admission, the UK Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, aims to create a digital identity Panopticon using AI and technology to constantly monitor citizens. The UK government's digital identity system will use biometric data, such as facial recognition, to create unique identity tokens, enabling real-time monitoring and predictive analysis of individual behaviour. To establish

Minister: ‘People should not be able to flash their digital ID on a phone screen’

The use of the new virtual official document will require users to go through a full digitised verification process, rather than simply holding up their phone for a brief inspection Citizens should not simply be able to “flash their digital ID on a phone screen” to verify their credentials, according to government’s dedicated minister. The UK’s new digital identity, which is due to be rolled out by 2029, “will be built to the highest security st…

UK advances digital wallet development after ID mandate scrap

The U.K. is advancing a digital wallet for government credentials, despite recent backlash against mandatory digital ID plans by its Prime Minister. The post UK advances digital wallet development after ID mandate scrap appeared first on CoinGeek.

UK digital ID goes in-house, government swears it isn't an ID card

Minister dodges cost questions while promising smartphone-free access and 'robust' verification The UK government has revealed some thinking about digital identity in response to written questions from MPs, while continuing to say next to nothing about the scheme's cost. . . .