Digital ID plan for UK risks creating ‘an enormous hacking target’, expert warns
Cyber security expert offers warning as tech companies prepare to bid for potentially multi-billion pound contracts
Keir Starmer’s plan for digital IDs risks creating “an enormous hacking target”, a cybersecurity expert has warned, as technology companies prepared to bid for contracts that could run into billions of pounds.
Amid widespread opposition, the prime minister said the mandatory digital ID – including citizens’ photos, names, dates of birth, nationalities and residency status – would come into use by July 2029.