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Rights groups urge UK PM Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID

by @BigBrotherWatch bigbrotherwatch.org.uk published 2025-09-231 min read

Big Brother Watch and other human rights, civil liberties, digital rights, and racial justice organisations have written to the Prime Minister urging him to abandon plans for a mandatory digital ID. The letter comes just days before an expected statement from Keir Starmer announcing the rollout of a mandatory digital…

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