Our pressure on the government to back down on Digital IDs worked.

But as long as it remains a government project, our data and privacy is at risk. The fight isn’t over.

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Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, fighting to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech online.

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Even if it's voluntary, Digital ID still creates a surveillance infrastructure.

This could be expanded later on as a requirement to access public services.

As we've seen with eVisas, digitalising interactions with the UK State without physical backups creates serious problems.

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The UK government's climbdown over mandatory Digital ID is a victory for ORG and other groups that warned of the threats to everyone's civil liberties.

BUT questions still remain.

Despite this latest U-turn, neither the scheme nor the giant pricetag have gone away entirely.

theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

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UK government rolls back key part of digital ID plans

Workers will be able to use other identification for right to work, meaning digital form not mandatory

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