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		whywhywhywhy 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for wor... >I mean if you have a passport then you already have an 'ID card', So why do we need this digital ID then?

jama211 5 months ago [–]

Technically, they could indeed upgrade passports with an online verification feature and make them mandatory and it would work.

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