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Video: UK Government U-turns on mandatory Digital ID plans amid privacy pushback

Jean Hurley and Carmen Cracknell
Photo: Martina Lindberg

GRIP’s Senior Reporter Carmen Cracknell and Commissioning Editor Jean Hurley discuss the intersection of digital identity and the UK’s fraud crisis.

The UK government has announced a significant shift in its strategy for a national digital identity scheme. Just months after signaling that a new digital ID would be a mandatory requirement for UK workers by 2029, ministers confirmed this week that the system will instead be voluntary.

Under the revised plans,