{"id":17467,"date":"2025-01-26T16:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/gov-uk-app-could-lead-to-mandatory-id-scheme-claim-privacy-groups\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T15:38:03","slug":"gov-uk-app-could-lead-to-mandatory-id-scheme-claim-privacy-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/gov-uk-app-could-lead-to-mandatory-id-scheme-claim-privacy-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov.uk app could lead to \u2018mandatory ID scheme\u2019, claim privacy groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>App and wallet would allow people to carry digital versions of key documents such as driving licence on their phones<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/26\/poland-digital-id-cards-e-government-app\">\u2022 Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new app to hold citizens\u2019 driving licences, passports and benefits documents risks being used as a \u201claunchpad for a mandatory ID scheme\u201d, privacy campaigners have claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Kyle, the technology secretary, last week unveiled plans for a gov.uk app and gov.uk wallet, intended to save time and hassle for millions by allowing them to carry on their phones digital versions of paper documents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/26\/govuk-app-wallet-could-lead-to-mandatory-id-scheme-claim-privacy-groups\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/022b9c7fa9c39280bf4589a0e9a0a46bd8b1c6c9\/0_39_11153_6692\/master\/11153.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5b8dcd975722632b9fa4de99a530f4d5\" title=\"Gov.uk app could lead to \u2018mandatory ID scheme\u2019, claim privacy groups\" \/>App and wallet would allow people to carry digital versions of key documents such as driving licence on their phones<br \/>\n\u2022 Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards<br \/>\nA new app to hold citizens\u2019 driving licences, passports and benefits documents risks being used as a \u201claunchpad for a mandatory ID scheme\u201d, privacy campaigners have claimed.<br \/>\nPeter Kyle, the technology secretary, last week unveiled plans for a gov.uk app and gov.uk wallet, intended to save time and hassle for millions by allowing them to carry on their phones digital versions of paper documents. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App and wallet would allow people to carry digital versions of key documents such as driving licence on their phones \u2022 Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards A new app to hold citizens\u2019 driving licences, passports and benefits documents risks being used as a \u201claunchpad for a mandatory ID scheme\u201d, privacy &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/gov-uk-app-could-lead-to-mandatory-id-scheme-claim-privacy-groups\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gov.uk app could lead to \u2018mandatory ID scheme\u2019, claim privacy groups<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}