RE: https://www.no2id.uk/2025/no2id-comment-on-the-first-delay-to-the-id-cards-consultation/
Please welcome the UK's No2ID @sam to the #fediverse ! #idcards #privacy #ukpolitics
RE: https://www.no2id.uk/2025/no2id-comment-on-the-first-delay-to-the-id-cards-consultation/
Please welcome the UK's No2ID @sam to the #fediverse ! #idcards #privacy #ukpolitics
Do not introduce Digital ID cards
This would be a step towards mass surveillance and digital control, and that no one should be forced to register with a state-controlled ID system.
🖊️ Please sign (UK)
Fancy handing over all your data to Oracle or Palantair? Lets make that easy with the new Digital ID cards!
Join the campaign: Say No to Digital IDs https://action.openrightsgroup.org/join-campaign-say-no-digital-ids #idcards
UK Government responded late yesterday to petition against digital #IDCards:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194?reveal_response=yes
“We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies. We will consult on details soon.”
Ok…so my response - ‘I will not be voting #Labour at next general or election. Your anti-migrant, ableist, tech bro loving vision fills me with dread’.
Fancy handing over all your data to Oracle or Palantair? Lets make that easy with the new Digital ID cards!
Join the campaign: Say No to Digital IDs https://action.openrightsgroup.org/join-campaign-say-no-digital-ids #idcards
Today it's a mandatory digital ID card to prove you have the right to work but in the future you might have to use it to access the NHS, to rent or buy a home, or to access benefits.
It's time to fight back, 'Say No to Digital IDs'.
Join the Campaign: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/join-campaign-say-no-digital-ids #digitalid #idcards
This petition already has over half a million signatures. Add yours here:
#DigitalID #NoDigitalID #IDCards #UKPolitics
Do not introduce Digital ID cards - Petitions
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194
We're in a cost of living crisis and Labour wants to bring in digital ID cards for everyone 🤡 They're risking turning the UK into a pre-crime state where we constantly have to prove who we are to go about our daily lives.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/25/keir-starmer-expected-to-announce-plans-for-digital-id-cards #precrime #digitalid #idcards
#Starmer says digital #IDcards an 'enormous opportunity' for UK and will make working illegally tougher - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/26/keir-starmer-digital-id-cards-immigration-borders-reform-uk-politics-live?page=with%3Ablock-68d630c48f0892d6aebac2c9#block-68d630c48f0892d6aebac2c9 yes, an enormous opportunity for total #surveillance
ID cards are bad. Very bad.
1. Once they exist it will become necessary to always carry it. If you don't you must have something to hide, etc.
2. They can't stop people working in the 'black economy' because people currently employing those working for cash don't care.
3. It is another attack on trans and NB people (very unlikely someone would be allowed to have multiple IDs)
4. Massive data loss of personal information is highly likely.
5. Who pays? Why should they?
6. Police state becomes more likely with having your ID inspected whenever a copper wants to harass someone, especially POC.
7. OTHER OPTIONS ALREADY EXIST!
ID cards are a very bad, very dangerous, very expensive, and very risky idea.
ps I'm not a 'Brit'. I'm British, or more specifically English!
#IDcards #PoliceStateUK #BritCard
Today it's a mandatory digital ID card to prove you have the right to work but in the future you might have to use it to access the NHS, to rent or buy a home, or to access benefits.
It's time to fight back, 'Say No to Digital IDs'.
Join the Campaign: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/join-campaign-say-no-digital-ids #digitalid #idcards
Oh look they’ve dragged out another old #Blair crony…David Blunkett. He’s always been a big fan of #IDCards…but erm, he seems to have forgotten why:
“I’m mystified that people haven’t come out with a highly coherent view of why we need it, why it would be beneficial to individuals.
Why aren’t our people coming out and arguing this case full on? We need conviction politics now and we need it urgently.”
What would that case be David? If you don’t say it out right, there isn’t a case, is there?
