lol soon #governments will reqire you too provide #idcards for touching #computers #smartphones
Jeez, crazy sh*t :/ #notcool
#idcards
Finland aims to tighten rules on who can take a passport photo
The government also wants to extend the validity of passports and ID cards to a period of 10 years.
"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
"You have given us a clear mandate
And we will use it to deliver change
To restore service and respect to politics
End the era of noisy performance
Tread more lightly on your lives
And unite our country" - Keir Starmer's inaugural speech as Prime Minister
But this is the man who wants to bring in #IDCards
So how is that "treading lightly on our lives" ?
"Although I appreciate the merits of the scheme, as my hon. Friend has set out, surely the fundamental question facing us today is one of public consent. Some 4,800 of my constituents have signed this petition. Does my hon. Friend agree that such a scheme cannot be introduced without clear consent from the public" - Luke Myer
"The hon. Gentleman says that this system will be free. I believe the OBR says that it will cost the taxpayer £1.8 billion; I do not believe that that is free" - Will Forster
#IDCards
Vaguely pedantic
"If this scheme [#IDCards] is introduced, it seems impossible that we can be protected from any future Government who are determined to utterly disregard a lot more of our basic human rights. This iteration of digital ID could, through a unique identification number, link our most sensitive biometric information to our names, ages, nationalities, addresses, medical information and housing and criminal histories, enabling a detailed profile worthy of the Chinese Government" - Sîan Bery
"The government has produced no credible reassurance that the NHS number will not become a gateway to expanded datasets or new intrusive linkages. There is no clear plan to prevent accidental disclosures that could put vulnerable children at risk, for example by revealing the address of a family fleeing domestic abuse or exposing confidential adoption records. Those are not theoretical concerns; they have occurred in practice'
- Gregory Stafford
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