Every UK adult will need ‘Brit card’ digital ID under Starmer plan to tackle illegal migration
Every adult in the country will be asked to have a new digital identity card given by the government as part of a new attempt to combat illegal migration.
The Prime Minister is reported to announce his support for the plan in a speech on Friday, which will confirm the right to live and work in England.
The so -called “Brit Kart” is expected to undergo a consultation and will then require legislation to implement it.
Earlier this year, the government began to look at some kind of digital identity for adults in the UK, with the opinion that it could help overcome illegal immigrants working in the black economy.
They looked at the example of Estonia using a compulsory ID card system.
The ministers come to the ministers in the midst of the pressure to take a harder action to combat the migration as the boat transitions reach a record level and the asylum accumulation is still over 75,000.
However, this week, the leaders of the eight civilian freedom groups warned that the compulsory digital identity is önünde unauthorized immigrants to the shadows ”.
Rebecca Vincent, the temporary director of Big Brother Watch, was among the warnings that the publication of a compulsory identity system could be “uniquely harmful for privacy, equality and civil freedoms”.
The organization gathered more than 101,000 signatures in a petition and called on Sir Keir Starmer to reject a “Brit card” proposals.
However, voting shows that the public extensively supports digital identity cards, that a survey, which is more common in December, is in favor of a universal digital definition system of 53 percent of people, and 25 percent in favor of a strong favor. Only 19 percent said they were against it.
Meanwhile, a report from Sir Tony Blair’s thinking agency this week shows that people have increased public support for a “super -digital identity card olan that will allow people to access public services and report problems in their local regions.
Investigating more than 2,000 adults, the report found that 62 percent of people prefer to bring some kind of digital identity as well as an application that would report things such as pits and abducted garbage box collections.
At the beginning of this month, Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood said that he was always in favor of their identity cards ”.
He talked to the publishers and added: “In fact, I supported the promotion of the last workers’ identity cards. The first invoice I talked to in parliament was the invoice of identity cards that the conservative-lib dem coalition was scrapped.”
“I have a long -standing position in which those who are familiar with the political registry have always supported something that I have always supported,” he said.
Liberty, Article 19, data and eight civilian freedom groups, including Data and Trust in RunnyMe, warned that the mandatory digital identity movement faced the risk of “changing the balance of power against the state with dangerous effects for our security, our rights and freedoms”.
When they wrote to Sir Keir, they wrote: “It is unlikely that the compulsory digital identity will achieve the goal of combating unauthorized migration of the government.
“The proposed plans misunderstand the ‘drawing factors’ that lead the migration to the UK, and will do very little to deal with employers working from gangs or’ books that use guilty people and employees and hosts and homeowners.
“Instead, he would push unauthorized immigrants to shadows, more precarious jobs and unaided houses.”
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