UK Scraps Its National Digital ID Scheme After 2,984,191 Signatures

Our Take

Britain has cancelled the national digital identity program its own government insisted was voluntary, and the reversal did not happen in one go. We mapped the full nine month retreat, the exact wording the government used, and what is still being built underneath it, at https://s.vp.net/nZhBT Incoming prime minister Andy Burnham confirmed the program introduced by his predecessor is being…