UK Exploring Plan For Digital ID Cards

Downing Street is exploring a proposal to introduce digital ID cards for every adult in Britain in a move to tackle the UK’s illegal migration crisis, according to reports. The new “BritCard” would be used to check on an individual’s right to live and work in Britain, with senior No 10 figures examining the proposal.

The card, stored on a smartphone, would reportedly be linked to government records and could check entitlements to benefits and monitor welfare fraud. […] … it would cost up to 400 million pounds to build the system and around 10 million pounds a year to administer as a free-to-use phone app.