Digital ID consultation launched by govt a few hours ago

Go get em tigers. Make me proud 😎

Closes 5th May 2026

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/making-public-services-work-for-you-with-your-digital-identity

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Yes: 304
No: 203

I will follow the proposals as they progress in committee stage

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I've now read the digital ID consultation document. Believe you me, I have never seen anything more bloody frightening. I've started my write up, but there is lots to say, so I don't know when I will finish

The government’s new Digital Identity consultation has been framed as a modernising voluntary exercise - a convenient way to prove who you are online. But once you read the document closely, a very different picture emerges. Beneath its language sits a set of proposed structural powers that make digital identity de facto mandatory and allow the system to expand, centralise, and harden over time, largely through executive rule‑making rather than parliamentary scrutiny.

The consultation outlines mechanisms that appear technical or incremental in isolation, but when taken together, they form the legal and technical scaffold for a state‑managed identity regime that can grow in scope without ever returning to Parliament.

What is most striking is how much of the system’s future evolution will be governed not by elected representatives, but by standards bodies, certification frameworks, and a proposed regulator‑like authority whose powers have yet to be defined in law.

This article is not an exhaustive catalogue of every issue in the consultation. Instead, it focuses on the mechanisms I feel are most consequential for individual rights - the ones that reveal how a system advertised as voluntary convenience can, through administrative design, become an instrument of state control. Others will no doubt interrogate the document further and surface additional concerns. My aim here is simply to draw attention to the structural features that deserve far more public scrutiny than they have yet received

Thanks for reading and do share to others that may not be aware of the risks that we are facing.

https://open.substack.com/pub/clarewillsharrison/p/the-uk-digital-identity-consultation

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The “Voluntary Convenience” of Digital Identity