Digital ID – how government risks undermining a thriving private sector
My previous report on the UK’s digital identity plans explored the UK Government's flawed proposals for a national digital identity and the political motivations and consequences. But the scheme carries wider risks - that of undermining a thriving private sector.
In a postscript to his already damning assessment of Downing Street’s progress to date on the issue, the LSE’s Professor Edgar Whitley, keynote speaker at a recent Westminster eForum conference on digital ID, added a postscript, warning that public trust will remain low if the technology’s deployment were to be seen as paternalistic and intrusive. This alone could damage the market beyond repair:
[If government is] keeping a record of every time you used your digital ID to prove something about you, then we might be comfortable with doing that for the Right to Work to make sure that only people who are legitimately in the UK can apply for...
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