Secure smartphone app could replace fraud-prone paper passports

Britain ‘falling behind’ as other countries embrace digital ID documentsPaper passports and driving licences should be torn up and replaced by a digital document that can be stored on a smartphone, a thinktank has said.Handing people a more secure, digital proof of identity would reduce online crime and save money, according to the Social Market Foundation. It points out that other countries have already developed secure ID technology and Britain has “not fully kept up with tec