"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.
thehatfox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
An enormous opportunity for the state to surveil and control the populace that is.
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!
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?
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.