Petition
Stop Digital ID card plan. Note risks of scheme to domestic abuse survivors.
Rejected
10 signatures
What the petition asks
We call on the UK Government to abandon the plans for mandatory Digital ID cards. Promoted as a vehicle to tackle illegal immigration, we are dismayed that narratives around this proposed scheme have not included any reference to the danger and risks posed to domestic abuse survivors.
Technology-facilitated abuse is rife. Digital ID cards, requiring smartphone-based digital identification, will fundamentally become additional weapons of abuse.
They will: enable coercive control; compromise anonymity; exacerbate digital exclusion, and increase data vulnerability.
The core safeguarding principles enshrined in UK law will be contradicted, and the Government's promise to halving violence against women and girls, broken.
Reject the cards to protect domestic abuse survivors!
They will: enable coercive control; compromise anonymity; exacerbate digital exclusion, and increase data vulnerability.
The core safeguarding principles enshrined in UK law will be contradicted, and the Government's promise to halving violence against women and girls, broken.
Reject the cards to protect domestic abuse survivors!
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:
Do not introduce Digital ID cards
Do not introduce Digital ID cards
Do not introduce Digital ID cards
Do not introduce Digital ID cards
Timeline
| 3 Oct 2025 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 29 Oct 2025 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
10
Status
Rejected
Rejected
29 Oct 2025
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 27 Aug 2026.