10 days ago

Biometric checks stalled again for cross-Channel travellers ⊖

found 2026 › Apr › 04 (Sat) @ 09:31 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Fears of Easter chaos over scaling up of new EU border system are eased, with no facial IDs for Eurotunnel and Eurostar passengers

Passengers crossing the Channel from the UK to France will not face n…

39 days ago

North Korean agents using AI to trick western firms into hiring them, Microsoft says ⊖

found 2026 › Mar › 06 (Fri) @ 17:15 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Firm says AI tools are masking identities of false applicants, who then funnel wages from remote IT jobs to North Korea

Fake IT workers deployed by North Korea are using AI technology, including voice…

45 days ago

Two transgender men sue Kansas over ‘dehumanizing’ driver’s license law ⊖

found 2026 › Feb › 27 (Fri) @ 22:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Law demanding IDs must match ‘sex at birth’ invalidated the driver’s licenses of about 1,700 trans people in the state

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46 days ago

Kansas revokes driver’s licenses from trans residents in latest assault on rights ⊖⊖

found 2026 › Feb › 26 (Thu) @ 21:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Law demanding IDs match ‘sex at birth’ also includes bathroom ban provision for trans people in public buildings

Transgender Kansas residents have begun receiving letters from the state’s department …

59 days ago

Trump threatens an executive order to mandate voter IDs before elections ○

found 2026 › Feb › 14 (Sat) @ 01:42 UTC

a story from Al Jazeera 🚨 › Al Jazeera English

The US president's message comes as part of a broader push to increase federal control of the election process.

69 days ago

‘One moment it was a little blip. The next, our friends are dying’: the gay porn soundtrack composers lost to the Aids crisis ⊖⊖

found 2026 › Feb › 04 (Wed) @ 19:55 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Gay porn in the 80s was home to beautifully moody synth music that is only now getting rediscovered – tragically too late for many of its creators

Michael Ely knew from the first moment he met James A…

89 days ago

Keir Starmer denies change to digital ID plan is yet another U-turn ⊖⊖

found 2026 › Jan › 15 (Thu) @ 01:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

No 10 says ditching of key plank of plan is technical tweak after Kemi Badenoch targeted Starmer over issue at PMQs

Keir Starmer has rejected the claim that his change of plan over digital IDs represe…

90 days ago

Starmer faces Badenoch at PMQs amid criticism over digital ID U-turn – UK politics live ⊕

found 2026 › Jan › 14 (Wed) @ 12:05 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Ministers have rolled back central element of digital ID plans, possibly allowing people to use other forms of identification to prove their right to work

Here are extracts from three interesting comm…

3 months ago

Bungling police told wrong family their son had died in car crash after 'mixing up IDs found at the scene' ⊖⊖

found 2026 › Jan › 08 (Thu) @ 12:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

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The unimaginable blunder - which saw the fate of two boys' families swapped for 22 agonising days - is now being investigated by the police watchdog.

5 months ago

No10 is accused of a U-turn on digital IDs months after minister 'promised they would not be mandatory' ⊕

found 2025 › Oct › 23 (Thu) @ 00:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

EXC: Sir Chris Bryant - then a minister in the department responsible for the digital ID scheme - promised Britons would be able to use physical identification in 'every circumstance' in March.