Digital ID Cards

[panrider_uk]

https://www.gbnews.com/news/digital-id-petition-signatures-britons-sign-up

Personally I'm relieved that government are so good at doing I.T. projects and that my data will be safe and never misused
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[Easy-X]

More persecution of indigenous peoples. Kick the British out!
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[stinkwheel]

My usual quote.

There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambiguous physical universe.

Just look at cash point machines, for instance. Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant (or nearly instant-a good six or seven seconds in tedious reality) genetic analysis, then having to answer trick questions about members of their family they didn't even remember they had, and about their recorded preferences for tablecloth colours. And that was just to get a bit of spare cash for the weekend. If you were trying to raise a loan for a jetcar, sign a missile treaty or pay an entire restaurant bill things could get really trying.

Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.”

― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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[Polarbear]

But..... What about the children?

or

Will Muslims be allowed a digital burka?

or

What's the problem?, my dogs micro chipped and he doesn't mind.

or

Just use you digital ID to join facebook, it's perfectly safe.
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[Ste]

Nothing can possiblye go wrong.

https://www.gdatasoftware.com/fileadmin/web/general/images/blog/2016/03_2016/G_DATA_Blog_Screenshot_Petya-RansomSite.png

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Polarbear]

[doggone]

Since even the Guardian has decided to get upset about it I'd be amazed if it ever happens, but probably need to spaff away a few £billion first.

[Copycat73]

smoke screen .. because Starmers leadership is in question ..
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caveat emptor

[panrider_uk]

This must put it even more in question.

The guy is a total narcissist.
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[Easy-X]

I outlined the Starmführer's plans for digital id to the wife. She was very angry until I said "...all before the next election" then she laughed and laughed and laughed.

I asked the AIs how long the average government IT project takes. You'd probably think it'd be an apples and oranges comparison but given the process of announcement, consultation, specification, tendering for suppliers, budgeting, respecifying half way through the project to guaranty it overruns on both time and money, etc. they're all pretty much the same.

tl;dr almost all national level government IT take at least 7 years to finish.

Most relevant examples: Universal Credit took over 14 years, GOV.UK Verify cancelled after 9 years. If you want to be optimistic, the replacement for the latter - GOV.UK One Login - is partially working right now after 4 years and expected to be complete in a year or two.
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