British Govt Agents Demand Action After UK Mega-Cyberattacks Surge 50%
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Imploring!
hang on a minute.
Aren't the same government ministers, who are writing to leaders of the FTSE firms, also trying to introduce a full scale roll out of identity cards and the ever increasing expansion of facial recognition.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-lette...
None of the signatories are specifically involved with the nascent digital ID scheme, as far as I know.