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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Will Durrant

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Mandatory id risks forcing unauthorised migrants into shadows warn groups | Mind Blowing Facts

In their letter the civil rights groups leaders said a digital ID card system could leave the country vulnerable to data security breaches (Alamy/PA) -

Mandatory digital ID risks pushing “unauthorised migrants further into the shadows”, the leaders of eight civil liberties groups have warned.

Big Brother Watch’s interim director Rebecca Vincent was among those warning that rolling out a compulsory identification system could be “uniquely harmful to privacy, equality and civil liberties”.

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