UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

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• Silinde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We’re constantly told that the country is broke, taxes will need to go up, old ladies will need to freeze, the disabled don’t deserve what few benefits they get… but we’ve got 1.8B to spend on a scheme that will eventually balloon to 4B+ so that hackers and fraudsters can get access to every piece of information about everyone all in one place, just so we can be spied on even more than we already are. Fuck Reeves. Fuck Starmer. Fuck Labour, and anyone that voted for those cunts.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Voted for them as opposed to who? Zack didn’t have our back last election exactly, it was them vs reform & Tories odds are it may come down to that again if the press finds dirt on Zack. I’m trans so trust me I don’t love the paternalistic red tories, but I don’t personally blame anyone for voting for them.

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    • Silinde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      When there’s nobody worth voting for, I refuse to play their game. I’m a proud ballot spoiler. Some will say I threw away my democratic right, but when my right is worth as much as pissing in an ocean of piss, it’s not worth having. I’m sure plenty of people here feel some sort of victory for placing Cameron-Hiding-Behind-A-Red-Rosette into number 10 because “at least it’s not the other one”, and I likewise have the same feeling about leaving a message of dissent that a couple people will be forced to read.

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  • ofnadwy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I thoroughly dislike the idea of a digital ID, but I still believe it would massively the Government’s ability to detect fraud, avoid multi-agency failures and support better data-led decision making - I could conceivably see these changes leading to significantly more than £1.8 billion in savings over a relatively short time-span.

    This does not mean I support it in any shape, but I think it’s important to acknowledge that it isn’t only a means of better controlling people, but it could offer real tangible efficiency savings.

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    • Silinde@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If we had capable leadership, I’d absolutely agree with you. Evidence is telling me that’s just not happening, and not going to happen any time soon, though. Instead, it’s far more likely any data they do get will be “anonymised”, bundled up and sold off to a company the person making the decision has a large stake in, if not by this government than by the next.

      No idea why would would be downvoted without a comment, though. It might be wishful thinking, but your commentary is legitimate.

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• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fuck off, I’m not paying £1.8B for a digital ID that I don’t even want!

  What’s wrong with my Blockbuster membership card?

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not paying £1.8B for a digital

    I don’t think that’s how this works. Labour will spend your money how it sees fit and you’ll like it.

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    • unknown@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Labour will spend your money how it sees fit and you’ll like it. put up with it, because what else can you do.

      FTFY

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  • sunbeam60@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What’s wrong with drinking out of your hands?!

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  • Photo55@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    @Hossenfeffer @als
    I can almost hear people saying "we'll need your digital #ID, and three other forms of ID."
    Encourages the wrong sort of people.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Good thing VPNs don’t exist, or this would be completely pointless.

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Jesus fucking christ, imagine all the good the UK could have achieved with 1.8 BILLION fucking pounds

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  • sunbeam60@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    £25 per person. Not that much could be achieved for that, tbh. Everything sounds like a lot on a national scale.

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    • NickwithaC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’d much rather my £25 went on social housing though.

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  All to stop children from seeing boobs.

  Why even care?

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s all about control

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• zwerg@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We don’t need a new digital id, we need new ventilators for babies and bullet proof vests for soldiers. Or, being a bit more serious, why not use it to extend HS2

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  • sunbeam60@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    £293,000 per meter. You could extend HS2 by 6 km. It wouldn’t even get another stop.

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• Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Is that all?”

  In the end it was not, in fact, all.

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