The UK's ID card proposals are technically years behind the systems being implemented in at least six European countries, including Estonia and Austria. The UK government last week launched a trial of ...

UK cabinet ministers have frequently referenced the former Soviet State as an exemplar of the beneficial use of digital ...

TALLINN (Reuters) - Estonia plans to block access to the country's vaunted online services for 760,000 people from midnight on Friday to fix a security flaw in some of the Baltic country's identity ...

Estonia's digital identity system has been beset by blunders and security issues that allow hackers to steal data and help scammers take money, we can reveal. The digital ID system used by 1.4million ...

Keir Starmer’s announcement that the UK will introduce mandatory digital ID for all citizens has sparked furious debate about their use, effectiveness and threat to privacy. In making its case, the ...

Since the beginning of July, new Estonian ID cards have not worked as customer loyalty cards in some stores, including supermarket Prisma. The problem should be resolved by the end of the month. In ...

A Tallinn man was arrested a week ago in Estonia under suspicion that he has exploited a government photo transfer service vulnerability to download ID scans of 286,438 Estonians from the Identity ...

Sir Keir Starmer faces a huge political battle to get his plans for mandatory digital ID cards across the line. The Prime Minister believes the so-called Brit-Cards will allow verification of a Briton ...

Plans to roll out a compulsory digital ID card in Britain have sparked fierce debate among Independent readers. While many branded the “Brit card” an attack on civil liberties and insisted it would do ...

The first ID card I ever had was the flimsy piece of laminated paper that made up my driver’s license. In the US, a driver’s license includes a photo, biometric information (eye colour, height, etc.) ...