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In its effort to require citizens obtain digital ID cards, the United Kingdom government will test the scheme on veterans.
“Veterans can now apply for and download a digital version of the Veteran Card on their smartphone,” the UK government wrote.
“From registering with GPs to housing support and discounted entry to museums, the card will ensure veterans can access services quickly and easily online,” it continued.
“Part of the blueprint for modern digital government, as government makes public services simpler and more accessible so they work around people’s lives as part of the Plan for Change,” it added.
What a disgusting way to trash Veterans, throwing them first into the digital gulag. https://t.co/lcVFFVeF8D
— ZeeeMediaOfficial (@zeee_media) October 17, 2025
More from the UK government:
Nearly 2 million veterans can now get and benefit from a digital version of the Veteran Card, which will make it easier and quicker to access key services and discounts via their smartphones.
From today, Friday 17 October, it will give veterans a seamless way to confirm their status in person and will include information already featured on their physical card – displaying their name, photo, latest service, and date of birth with the security features that protect their personal information.
By downloading the optional card on their smartphones, former Service Personnel can show their veteran status to access everything from housing and mental health support to reduced entry at museums and money off their shopping – all at the touch of a button. The move forms part of government plans to deliver national renewal by transforming public services so they work around people’s lives and not the other way round.
Once application is approved, downloading the card takes minutes – far quicker than waiting for a physical card to arrive by post. Just like a digital bank card or rail card, it puts convenient proof of service directly in veterans’ pockets, highlighting which service of the Armed Forces they last served in to unlock service-specific support and ending the need to carry a physical copy whilst maintaining the highest security standards.
Veterans can download it via the GOV.UK One Login app, which, like banking apps, uses passcodes, Face ID, or Touch ID, providing the security veterans deserve whilst creating new opportunities to access services more conveniently. Once set up, veterans simply open the app and show their digital card.
“Former SAS Officer Matthew Hellyer says that the launch of digital veteran cards is a ‘dangerous path’ to digital IDs, warning of the potential data leaks,” GB News wrote.
‘We do not need to put our lives at risk for the sake of Keir Strama’s digital ID rollout.’
Former SAS Officer Matthew Hellyer says that the launch of digital veteran cards is a ‘dangerous path’ to digital IDs, warning of the potential data leaks. pic.twitter.com/LpsuUC34Ad
— GB News (@GBNEWS) October 17, 2025
Other social media users blasted the digital ID ‘case study’ on veterans:
Veterans do not need Digital ID
Another attempt to impose Digital ID on all
This Gov has no solutions to issues & while too many Veterans are homeless & all threatened with IHT yet Gov pretends to be all friendly to peddle Digital ID
About 1.8… pic.twitter.com/GcoGKs4cJx
— Alan D Miller (@alanvibe) October 17, 2025
“Veterans are to be offered new digital cards in the first scheme of its kind which could serve as a ‘case study’ ahead of a proposed government role out of mandatory online IDs for every UK citizen”
Veterans, you are the guinea pigs
Veterans, please dont do it pic.twitter.com/Mq702EVxVj
— Clare Wills Harrison (@AwakenedOf) October 17, 2025
The Guardian shared further info:
Digital driving licences will be in development by the end of this year and by the end of 2027, digital versions of every government-issued credential – including disclosure and barring checks – will be offered for voluntary use, officials said. Keir Starmer wants to make carrying a digital ID mandatory for anyone wanting or needing to prove their right to work in the UK by the end of this parliament.
That plan sparked cross-party opposition and a 2.9 million-signature petition calling for it to be dropped. But the technology secretary, Liz Kendall, this week complained of “scaremongering” and said digital IDs would not be used to track citizens and “there will be no pooling of people’s private information into a single, central dataset”.
Ministers hope the digital veteran card will show how the technology works and quash public concerns about privacy and security. Kendall said it “will help remove barriers, reduce red tape and make it easier for people to access the public services they need”.
The Royal British Legion, the veterans’ charity that sells poppies, called the card “a positive development” and said it could improve access to services and benefits for the armed forces communities. But other veterans oppose it. Stephen Kent, the media director of Veterans Association UK, a small not-for-profit members’ group, said: “We don’t need it. It’s not for what Labour says it’s for …. A lot of veterans don’t like the idea of it [and that they] are using us as an experiment.”
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