{"id":224017,"date":"2025-10-25T13:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/digital-id-cards-could-be-a-disaster-in-the-uk-and-beyond"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:05:18","slug":"digital-id-cards-could-be-a-disaster-in-the-uk-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/digital-id-cards-could-be-a-disaster-in-the-uk-and-beyond","title":{"rendered":"Digital ID cards could be a disaster in the UK and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/digital-id-cards-could-be-a-disaster-in-the-uk-and-beyond.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The British government isn\u2019t the only one looking to introduce digital ID cards. There is so much to worry about here, not least the threat of hacks, says <b>Annalee Newitz<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/annalee-newitz\/\">Annalee Newitz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government isn\u2019t the only one looking to introduce digital ID cards. There is so much to worry about here, not least the threat of hacks, says Annalee Newitz By Annalee Newitz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}