Canvis a "Statement On Digital IDs"
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- We're all pretty clearly against digital ids over in the WhatsApp Community - so let's get the ball rolling and also test out another feature of the platform.
- This is a collaborative draft. You can add to it if you want. Right now I'm not actually adding anything to the proposed statement except this intro here - so feel free to get started below the asterisks! [John - 22:58 / 09.25]
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- +Perhaps no policy declaration in living memory has so united the country in disdain for a Prime Minister in living memory: digital ids are being mooted by our not-particularly-benevolent rulers. This is a policy which successive governments have tested the waters on, but which there seems absolutely no appetite for.
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- +It won't surprise you to learn that the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change is BIG on digital IDs: their glossy website declares that this policy won't surveil you, but will instead keep you safe.
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- +From what? Well, quite. There's nothing a digital id can keep you safe from, but there's plenty of ways it can imperil you. The government doesn't exactly have the hottest track record on security - in 2023 the personal details of 10,000 Police Service of Northern Ireland officers were exposed, and government officials still occasionally pop up in the news for having left a folder or a phone or a laptop on a train.
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- +Do we want or need a central database so tempting and inviting just to find new ways to brutalise immigrants and benefits claimants - and enrich Tony Blair?
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- +It would appear from the reaction from the public that not even Reform voters think so.
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