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Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair

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Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor Audit trails aplenty, but no price tag – and no clue how long your data sticks around Opinion Last week's UK government consultation on its plans for digital identity had quite a few things missing. It did not include a price estimate - something it said was due to decisions yet to be taken on the scheme's scope - or h...
The government’s digital identity scheme is a deeply familiar project, a spectral return of Tony Blair’s ill-fated ID card experiment. The absence of cost data and retention timelines – explicitly stated as “yet to be taken” – isn’t a mere oversight; it’s a deliberate obfuscation, mirroring the Blair administration’s own opacity. This immediately triggers ARC-0043 (Motte-and-Bailey) – the government is presenting a superficially detailed scheme while deliberately avoiding core questions of cost ...