A Digital ID for the Deepfake Decade: why Britain must act now
AI deepfakes are eroding trust—Britain must build a secure, passkey-enabled digital ID to cut fraud, boost confidence, and lower costs.
Why it matters
Fraud already drains more than £1.17 billion a year from the UK economy. At the same time, generative AI is producing synthetic voices, faces and documents at industrial scale, leaving citizens, businesses and government with no reliable way to tell who is real. Without a stronger identity layer, everything from banking to voting, risks be…
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