The obligatory digital identity document closes the marginalized groups of housing and employment, campaigns have warned.
The government today announced that it will introduce a mandatory identity system in order to prove the right to work in Britain.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said it is used to control migration that the system “would be harder to work illegally in this country, which makes our limits safer”.
By the end of this Parliament, it is expected to be in place, and it is said that the identity document will offer countless benefits to the citizens, such as the ability to prove your identity quickly – instead of hunting old utility, “he said.
The staff records the information, name, date of birth, nationality and residence and are available through smartphones.
Privacy International has conducted research from countries abroad that have introduced digital identity systems and stated that the risks “beyond interest”.
“Most of these systems are made through public and private partnerships,” said the lawyer word Farrukh.
“This raises a lot of concerns about what kind of transparency and du diligence processes are used.”
He warned that historically, there was always a “function creeping”, saying, “Slowly you find that this will become another control system that expands its parameters over time and interferes with the ability to use different services or that knowledge sharing between agencies.”
Such systems can also be marginalized, he said that referring to how people in India have had to get welfare benefits because they are unable to use a digital ID.
Freedom Director Akiko Hart shared these fears: “A mandatory digital identity document excludes some of the most marginalized members of society, including the fears of poverty and the elderly about living and employment.”
Jim Killock, an open rights group, killed the “expensive and divided” system as the last thing that the government should start during the cost of living.
“Labor has the risk of creating a digital surveillance infrastructure that changes everyone’s daily lives and establishes a pre -crime state where we have to constantly prove who we are as we are going to our daily lives,” he said.
Tom Brake, director of democracy, said: “When employers are already required to check people’s rights to work, it is not clear how the digital ID helps to reduce illegal immigration and prevent people working in the black economy.
“But what digital ID could make it easier in the future is a wider penetration of people’s lives and creating large knowledge troops, which is susceptible to hacking.”
The consultation looks at how the system works for those who do not have a smartphone, the government said.
The Scottish Greens killed a “authoritarian” plan.
MSP Maggie Chapman said, “Labor always tells us that they cannot afford to support pensioners in winter or finance the services we all trust, but they have found hundreds of millions of pounds for such a system that was not even in their manifest.
“And this money goes to a private IT company that wins a lucrative agreement.
“The workforce is in danger of repeating the PPE scandal we saw during COVID and creating an opportunity for future consulting work for former ministers.”
Plaid Cymru Westminster director Liz Saville Roberts said: “We are concerned about security, and we are opposed to all systems that risks make sensitive personal data earning or being more susceptible to information network attacks.
“And one thing is clear: most Welsh people only recognize Wales. Description of this as” Britcard “is the surest way to get a politics to the bad start here.”