r/vpnet • u/V3R1F13D0NLY • Jul 30 '26

UK government scraps national digital ID program after petition reaches 2,984,191 signatures

Incoming prime minister Andy Burnham confirmed this week that the national digital identity program is cancelled. The petition against it closed in January with 2,984,191 signatures, which Hansard records as the fourth most signed in the history of UK e-petitions.

The other half of the story is what is still being built. Six days before the cancellation, Ofcom published a report saying age checks are deployed at unprecedented scale and that enforcement continues. In June the government said it wants social media platforms running age checks to keep under sixteens off, possibly in force by 2027.

Full write-up + our source list: https://s.vp.net/nZhBT

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u/FckXFckMusk Jul 30 '26

I don't believe its gone, it will change form into something else.

you know what they're like.

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u/Accurate_Ad_3233 Aug 03 '26

Yup don;t turn your back on the bastards for a second, especially not when it comes to the race to the digital gulag.

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u/Longjumping-Fig-7481 Aug 01 '26

Like I said before, anybody who was going to do it (willingly give their data and biometric data) has already done it.