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Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers

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525 points alex77456 | 1 comments | 26 Sep 25 02:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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benmmurphy ◴[26 Sep 25 12:37 UTC] No.45385797[source]▶
I don't understand how people are able to work in the UK illegally without employers already breaking the law. Employers are required to pay payroll taxes for their employees and you need a national insurance number for the employee to do this. I'm not sure how this fixes something that should already be fixed.
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1. cassianoleal ◴[26 Sep 25 12:40 UTC] No.45385827[source]▶
Not just that but there's already the "share code" system that's used to verify status against the Home Office.

This smells a lot of "think of the children" [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children