RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUK/116065332116953289
it's bank cards as pseudo ID cards rather than doing it properly. The next step will be store loyalty cards. Afterall, they do know rather a lot about you! #VoterID #UK_politics #IDCards
The government has rolled back a key part of its plans to introduce a digital identity scheme by the end of this parliament.
People will no longer be required to sign up to the digital ID scheme in order to seek work in the UK.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/government/government-backtracks-on-digital-id
Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK | BBC | ID Cards are not dead yet and we need to keep the pressure up…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/141230
#DigitalId #IdCards #surveillance
Government drops plans for man...
Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK | BBC | ID Cards are not dead yet and we need to keep the pressure up…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/141230
#DigitalId #IdCards #surveillance
Very pleased to see that the government has listened to reason and scrapped their crazy scheme for mandatory ID cards. This is a welcome development.
Maybe the strong opposition to it had an effect after all. Just goes to show that it's worth speaking up, signing petitions, writing to MPs, and all that kind of thing.
Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK | BBC | ID Cards are not dead yet and we need to keep the pressure up…
… however, this is pointing in the right direction:
“The government has dropped plans requiring workers to sign up to its digital ID scheme in order to prove their right to work in the UK, the BBC understands. By 2029, right to work checks will be done digitally – for example by using biometric passports – but registering with the new digital ID programme will be optional.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o
see also:
https://twitter.com/Cyberleagle/status/2011229447916282200
https://twitter.com/silkiecarlo/status/2011219368064270810
#digitalId #idCards #surveillancelol soon #governments will reqire you too provide #idcards for touching #computers #smartphones
Jeez, crazy sh*t :/ #notcool
"There are basic vulnerabilities in the system. It would not take any creative thinking for a state actor or organised crime to target the vulnerabilities in #DigitalID."
" We are fairly confident it's a low risk, said Chris Bryant about the data breach at the Foreign Office
Starmer formally announced plans for #IDCards known as the BritCard on Sept 25th
er.......
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/19/uk-foreign-office-victim-cyber-attack-october-
Whistleblowers raise ‘extreme’ concern about security of government’s Digital ID | ITV News
https://alecmuffett.com/article/136503
#DigitalId #IdCards #OneLogin
Whistleblowers raise ‘extreme’...
Whistleblowers raise ‘extreme’ concern about security of government’s Digital ID | ITV News
https://alecmuffett.com/article/136503
#DigitalId #IdCards #OneLogin
Whistleblowers raise ‘extreme’ concern about security of government’s Digital ID | ITV News
My understanding from friends is One Login is a glorified bastion host that reliant services & parties are obligated to blindly trust, making it a giant SPOF; that alone would be terrifying at national scale, but then: this:
#digitalId #idCards #oneLogin“Whistleblowers have told ITV News that One Login is failing to meet the mandatory, minimum government cybersecurity standards, ‘Secure by Design’ and the ‘Cyber Assessment Framework’”
"Why is Starmer pinning his political reputation on such a manifestly unpopular policy? When he announced it, he claimed it would stop illegal immigration by putting an end to illegal work, an argument so hopeless that even he’s abandoned it (people who employ illegal immigrants being the least obvious demographic to abide by any new rules).
Instead he’s tweeted a series of increasingly desperate reasons, all of which have been comprehensively ratioed (ie comments vastly outnumbering shares) and community noted (fact-checked by users)."
https://www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id-keir-starmer-tony-blair-institute-larry-ellison-oracle-opposition
#IDcards #UKpolitics #FollowTheMoney #Starmer #LabourGovernment #digitalID
"Why is Starmer pinning his political reputation on such a manifestly unpopular policy? When he announced it, he claimed it would stop illegal immigration by putting an end to illegal work, an argument so hopeless that even he’s abandoned it (people who employ illegal immigrants being the least obvious demographic to abide by any new rules).
Instead he’s tweeted a series of increasingly desperate reasons, all of which have been comprehensively ratioed (ie comments vastly outnumbering shares) and community noted (fact-checked by users)."
https://www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id-keir-starmer-tony-blair-institute-larry-ellison-oracle-opposition
#IDcards #UKpolitics #FollowTheMoney #Starmer #LabourGovernment #digitalID
I have spent much of the morning cherry picking out key points from yesterday's parliamentary debate about #IDCards
The E-petition brought forward by the people of this country at almost 3,mill was the 4th largest, and almost every MP who participated in the debate spoke against the measure
The session ended with the g'ment speaking but taking no intervention - quite telling in its own way.
The whole transcript is below xxx
(I read this shit so you don't have to 😄)
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-12-08/debates/9E01F17C-557A-4D02-8A93-B573721B8B20/a
"Fourthly, this system will be a public good. I want to build this system because it will benefit ordinary people, not because I am under the grip of some international elite or globalist diktat, as someone said earlier, which is quite the antisemitic trope to throw at a Jewish Minister".
#IDCards debate playing the antisemitic card ffs 🙄
"We are working with the UK’s leading national security experts, including the National Cyber Security Centre, to build a system with cutting-edge protections against cyber-attacks and identity fraud. Let me be specific: we are not creating a centralised master database. The new system will be federated. Specifically, that means that there will be strict legal firewalls on what information can be shared."
G'ment Minister talking about #IDCards
'We've heard loud and clear across the Chamber today about the attack on civil liberties. The Government said that this is not about checking papers, but that is exactly what is being introduced. They talked about the right to work and someone needing to check papers, so it is about checking papers. The Resolution Foundation says that 91% of the working-age population will be employed at some point in their life. This is essentially mandatory for the whole population" - Victoria Collins #IDCards
"Until August 1914, a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state…He could travel abroad or leave his country forever without a passport or any sort of official permission." - AJP Taylor
