thehatfox@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months agoKeir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital IDwww.thetimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square38linkfedilinkarrow-up1197arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1195arrow-down1external-linkKeir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital IDwww.thetimes.comthehatfox@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square38linkfedilinkfile-text
I wouldn’t normally post Times articles but they seem to be the first to run this bit of rare good news.
minus-squareelgordino@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 months agoGood. The gov.uk ‘one login’ they are already rolling out is plenty good enough without the massive overreach of digital id.
minus-squareImNotThatPokable@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoI’m not from the UK and also don’t have any background on this, can you perhaps explain why it’s overreach? I would think that ID documents being digital is a logical step to digitisation.
minus-squareelgordino@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThis is pretty much aligned with my POV: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/
Good. The gov.uk ‘one login’ they are already rolling out is plenty good enough without the massive overreach of digital id.
I’m not from the UK and also don’t have any background on this, can you perhaps explain why it’s overreach?
I would think that ID documents being digital is a logical step to digitisation.
This is pretty much aligned with my POV: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/