Mandatory ID cards (Brit Card) to be announced tomorrow

[IT Minion]

We're still going to have passports and driving licences and student cards and immigration certificates and nhs cards and oyster cards and everything else. There is no 'integration' between these systems.

Apart from the integration that's already been built already between several of those systems at great expense because they weren't designed to be integrated.

The government could stop the decades long crossing party plan to join up IT services and they could decide to stop making them all online e-first. They could buck every trend in IT, which of course you're aware of, to federate authentication and authorization systems. It's possible they'll take this wonderful purpose built ID system and then choose not to use it as the authentication backbone for everything else.

They could.

 

[Si_]

Apart from the integration that's already been built already between several of those systems at great expense because they weren't designed to be integrated.

There isn't any. They are not integrated.

The government could stop the decades long crossing party plan to join up IT services and they could decide to stop making them all online e-first. They could buck every trend in IT, which of course you're aware of, to federate authentication and authorization systems. It's possible they'll take this wonderful purpose built ID system and then choose not to use it as the authentication backbone for everything else.

They could.

I can't even decipher your grammar, let alone make rational sense of that.

 

[securespark]

Which country is it (my pathetic memory has let me down) that introduced ID cards and they have been extremely successful and well-received?

I would have thought an effective system of ID cards would help with the issues we have and the general population would be happy, but it seems entirely the opposite is true.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

That's good then, how do I use it?, I doubt I'll be able to upload it to my Nokia 105!

I have the 6100.

 

[Si_]

Which country is it (my pathetic memory has let me down) that introduced ID cards and they have been extremely successful and well-received?

I'm struggling too. The only countries with mandatory digital ID systems are Nigeria and Estonia. Estonia is so small as to be irrelevant and Nigeria is... Nigeria.

 

[Notch7]

How do I save my digital ID to my phone?

 

[securespark]

I'm struggling too. The only countries with mandatory digital ID systems are Nigeria and Estonia. Estonia is so small as to be irrelevant and Nigeria is... Nigeria.

Well, Estonia may be small, but if the system is implemented and administered well, it could be a model for the UK system.

 

[securespark]

How do I save my digital ID to my phone?

I'll give you a ring and tell you.

 

[aveatry]

You were told but did not listen - covid was the test to see if the general public would be compliant and overwhelmingly the sheeple went clockwise around asda, wore a mask alone in a car and showed your vax card to the restaurant before you were allowed in.

 

[Si_]

Well, Estonia may be small, but if the system is implemented and administered well, it could be a model for the UK system.

And there lies the problem.

 

[securespark]

Well, the belief is that Estonia's system is.

So if it can be done elsewhere, it can be done here and that would be a good thing.

 

[Deluks]

Estonia has a population of 1.3m, (which goes down each year.) The government is relatively stable, competent and efficient.
Nothing like the UK at all!

 

[motorbiking]

My friend is self-employed.
He - in your words - "provides a service" to banks and the like, in his role as an IT-type wallah.
Are you trying to claim that those "banks and the like" are exempt from any responsibility for ensuring that he is legally-entitled to work in the UK?

I am not trying to claim anything - it is a fact.

The bank will have various obligations to vet their own employees and contractors (such as your mate), as required by industry regulations. They will not be required to check his right to work under https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/13/crossheading/employment as he is not an employee.

 

[motorbiking]

1.5M have already signed a petition to scrap the idea:

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

 

[noseall]

That's good then, how do I use it?, I doubt I'll be able to upload it to my Nokia 105!

Don't bother boyo, if your career or your skills are worth less than a second hand dinger.