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Digital ID: Border Security, Crime Prevention, and the Future #shorts
Sep 27, 2025
Digital ID's potential for immigration and border control is clear. But could it also combat online fraud and crime? Home Office discusses collaboration with DSIT on evolving digital security standards. #DigitalID #OnlineSecurity #HomeOffice #DSIT #Cybersecurity
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I think the white paper and your answer
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there obviously there is huge potential
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for digital ID in terms of new arrivals
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and ensure securing our borders and
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having an immigration system fit for
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purpose just in terms of the wider
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population other issues. So for example
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online uh fraud and online crime is one
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of the huge challenges for your
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department um and for crime prevention
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and uh the criminal justice system. Do
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you see digital ID having a role to play
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in that? Um and yeah more generally
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across the population or or do you see
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it confined to simply an issue of
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immigration and border control within
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the opices of the home office of course
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because there are other benefits in
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other departments. So I think um our
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clear focus is around being able to
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ensure that we've got proper uh rules
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being respected and enforced in the
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immigration system and uh and in the
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asylum system as well that we can make
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sure that if uh that there is evidence
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if people are not here lawfully or they
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are not working lawfully we can get that
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information. we can actually uh make
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sure we can take the much stronger
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action to prevent that kind of abuse of
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the system taking place. There are then
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wider uh considerations for the um for
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DSIT on making sure that you've also got
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um secure standards, secure underpinning
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for people to be able to use digital ID
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whether it be online and so on um as
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well. So there's a wider considerations
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there. Just follow up on that in terms
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of that DSP one login using digital ID
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in in terms of uh helping
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customers and helping businesses
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interact. There is a role for the home
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office and and crime prevention and
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ensuring that uh online activity is safe
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whether that is in regards to child
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abuse that happens online increasingly
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and online fraud. Is there conversations
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going on between the home office and
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DESIT as to working together on this or
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or is it working in silos? At the moment
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we do work with DEIT on all of the
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issues around the online crime and
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online uh abuse and online exploitation.
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So there is a lot of crossgovernment
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working. Um and I think part of the
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issue here is um making sure that you
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can develop systems that can evolve over
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time to be used in the most effective
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way. And when you