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Privacy activists warn digital ID won’t stop small boats – but will enable mass surveillance

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Big Brother Watch says a so-called BritCard could turn daily life into one long identity check – and warn that Whitehall can’t be trusted to run

A national digital ID could hand the government the tools for population-wide surveillance – and if history is anything to go by, ministers probably couldn’t run it without cocking it up.…

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