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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.

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Amer Altaf
Aug 30, 2025
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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 …

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