Mandatory ID cards (Brit Card) to be announced tomorrow

[Harry Bloomfield]

I already have an ID card and am on a database thanks, my driving license.
Police can easily check that.

Driving licence, passport, etc., the government keeps lots of sensitive data on you - what's so special about an ID card?

 

[aveatry]

Great idea. Flag shaggers will be black balled.

Don't be a prat - it was a light hearted comment and you have to be vile. You need to stop.

 

[MNW67]

Are you joking? Seriously

I wouldn't rule it out.

 

[aveatry]

Driving licence, passport, etc., the government keeps lots of sensitive data on you - what's so special about an ID card?

Then one is not needed then

 

[aveatry]

I wouldn't rule it out.

Imagine if I would have said that - conspiracy would of been shouted

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Then one is not needed then

They are, simply as a standard instrument of ID. Plenty of people lack any official form of ID.

 

[Si_]

Driving licence, passport, etc., the government keeps lots of sensitive data on you - what's so special about an ID card?

A digital ID will link everything together in one place, and because everyone will have one, it's definitive. Which means it can be linked to literally everything you do. It can track your income, savings, tax returns, spending, travel, purchases, internet activity, energy usage, CO2 footprint, literally anything that can be linked to you. And once all that's in place, it can - and will - be used to control all these things.

 

[aveatry]

They are, simply as a standard instrument of ID. Plenty of people lack any official form of ID.

Great so that will be how its starts "for your conveyance" not mandatory to start with - not for everyone to start with - not digital to start with. thats the tiptoe totalitarian

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

And once all that's in place, it can - and will - be used to control all these things.

You mean, like they could anyway, if they really intended to, using your passport, or diving licence - but they didn't.

 

[Deleted member 317777]

I wouldn't rule it out.

Maybe you do lean a little to the right after all.

 

[aveatry]

Fills me with confidence in the scheme.

Children's names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery hack

Experts have condemned the hack as an "absolute new low" for cyber-crime.

www.bbc.co.uk

Just heard it on the LBC radio news they read out the ID card news then directly after it was the nursery hack -- and nobody batts an eyelid - makes a connection on data safety.

 

[Si_]

You mean, like they could anyway, if they really intended to, using your passport, or diving licence - but they didn't.

A fully comprehensive system cannot be introduced right now because not everyone has a passport, or a driving licence. Once there is a single ID entity then that's when the full system can be introduced that connects to everything with a digital presence.

 

[SPLINE]

The ID cards are not for reducing immigration, they are for increasing communism.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Driving licence, passport, etc., the government keeps lots of sensitive data on you - what's so special about an ID card?

Because we're not a 'can you show us your papers please?' type of nation.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

The ID cards are not for reducing immigration, they are for increasing communism.

I agree with you on the bib