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Keir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UK

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨coruscant@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/26/keir-starmer-digital-id-cards-enormous-opportunity-uk

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  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    An enormous opportunity for the state to surveil and control the populace that is.

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    • jlow@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And (probably) for his friends who happen to just have the tech handy to realise this project and weirdly get the tender for it. Oh he works at that place now that he’s done woth being a politician? Nothing wrong with that!

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    • coruscant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No offense, but are the Brits so worried about ID Cards?

      Don’t you already have cameras everywhere in London?

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      • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes, but we don’t actually want that.

        We live in a surveillance state and don’t want it to go further.

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  • kbal@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    "You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID. It's as simple as that."

    Ah, I get it. The idea is to give a massive boost to the underground economy, forcing everyone without a digital ID to work completely off the books.

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    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And to identify everyone at a protest for example…

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