Is this a brexit all over again? They don’t seem to learn
It’d be wise to separate digital IDs from expensive tracking devices (smartphones).
What’s wrong with an actual card with a chip (but no wireless capability) on it?
Hard to use when having to ID you on websites
In Germany, this is done via NFC on the chip card, using your phone. Works fine and I get to control when ID is used.
Yeah, the poster above said “no wireless capability” though. NFC is wireless.
And even without that, I prefer a single short range wireless connectivity to a multiband device with very high processing power and multiple sensors and various attack vectors having all my effects consolidated in it.
What could possibly go wrong?
What’s infuriating about this is there already exists forms of ID to verify your right to work in the UK and people employing people without the documentation to prove their right to work in the UK don’t give a shit whether they have the correct documentation.
This is a complete waste of time and money which can be better spent elsewhere.
Maybe the pertinent question is “Where is the money being spent now? Who is supplying the platform?”.
Follow the money?
What about people who can’t afford to have a mobile phone? Or a place to keep it charged? I.e. homeless
This is also an anti immigration thing
Starmer went to Palantir, pointed to Russia’s new Max “everything app” and said “I want one of those”
Nah this goes way back, this is home grown New Labor security state ideas. Blair tried doing it 15 years ago and has been banging on about it from the side lines since then.
Let’s see if it flops just as hard as Blair’s attempt.
