Members of the UK government’s People’s Panel on Digital ID will spend two weekends in Birmingham and three evenings on Zoom discussing how Britain should build a national digital identity system, earning £550 plus expenses for their trouble. A protest march in London in opposition to Digital ID in December 2025. Image credit: Elena Rostunova / Shutterstock Invitations have gone out to 36,000 UK addresses asking recipients to weigh in on the question: "How should we design a Digital ID system for the UK?" – a framing that, as worded, rather forecloses the answer "Don't bother." Those selected will attend in-person workshops in central Birmingham from 9.30am to 5pm across the weekends of 30 to 31 May and 20 to 21 June, plus three weekday evening sessions on Zoom from 6-9pm, beginning Thursday 21 May. The letter, seen by The Register , does not include the address of the Birmingham venue. Around 100 to 120 participants are being chosen from volunteers to represent a cross-section of the UK population.…