Britain has scrapped its national digital ID scheme.
This is the right decision. A centralised database of every resident's identity is a breach waiting to happen.
We argued this in our consultation response to the UK government.
We are long, long, long overdue to reduce the amount of KYC we do as a society.
It doesn’t stop crime. It enables mass surveillance of the innocent by the tyrannical. And, perhaps most of all, it enriches hackers with troves of intimate personal data.
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