Keir Starmer considering introducing mandatory digital ID cards for everyone to tackle illegal immigration, reports from No 10 reveals.
Privacy and civil liberties group Big Brother Watch said that that a mandatory digital ID system would usher in a “dystopian nightmare” in which everyone in Britain would be “forced through digital checkpoints to go about our everyday lives”.
“Simply put the burden on the already law-abiding citizens to prove their right to be here”, Big Brother Watch’s interim director Rebecca Vincent said on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
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