What are your concerns about a potential Digital ID?

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  • Littlefatfriend
    Littlefatfriend Online Community Member Posts: 404 Pioneering
  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,969 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1094846#Comment_1094846

    It fills me with dread tbh I'd like to say we are living in a civilised world with rights but that seems to be fading wish I could live in a community thats off grid I don't know what skills I could bring like us all im desperate to get out of this matrix and this agenda i keep saying when does this all stop becoming conspiracy because the world isn't the same the amount of chaos I believe is manufactured to set civil war i try to talk to my daughter for a plan B she thinks im crazy but I think its crazy that people think this coumtry the world is still the same its like all dystopian films I've ever seen the eroding of society i have hope with the monks doing the peace walk and that fills me with joy but on the other shoulder im very very uneasy feel like a sitting duck

  • MrHappy
    MrHappy Online Community Member Posts: 163 Empowering

    I'm not smart enough to figure out if its a good idea or not so i will just accept whatever is decided. I've got a driving licence and a passport both with my picture on them so one more photo ID won't make much difference to me.

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 1,380 Championing

    As a cybersecurity expert and ethical hacker, I have no doubt in my mind that as soon as they make this mandatory and the system is up and running its going to be a #1 target for hackers. Identity theft is going to become more easily available, once they roll it out more and more controls will be put in place too.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,969 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1094942#Comment_1094942

    I think me personally that the word conspiracy theorist is thrown around alot on subjects like this but me personally I see patterns well tbh it hard not to look what's happening world wide and happening here protesters out all the times fighting against harmful policies that is destroying businesses homes life's but we have to carry on like notings happening dismiss the great anxiety all this is bringing to the world keep it all in do small talk and smile I can't do that I just wish could find a solution so wow cybersecurity that could be your lifeline im the future impressive I seriously been trying to think of a skill I could use im still at blank point I cannot be controlled its impossible

  • MW123
    MW123 Scope Member Posts: 1,890 Championing

    Rubin, I am 100% in agreement that you are right about the cybersecurity side. A system like that would be a magnet for hackers and scammers the moment it goes live.

    Given the NHS IT fiasco, that huge attempt to modernise records which ended up being scrapped after costing the government more than £10 billion, plus Universal Credit’s digital chaos and the way HMRC’s site collapses every January, I am not convinced a national digital ID would survive its first Monday morning.

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    Community_Scope Posts: 2,093 Scope Online Community Coordinator

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  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,338 Championing

    If anyone has missed this; I thought I'd misheard a snippet on this evening's news, the Gov't is no longer making digital ID mandatory with the 'Right to Work.' Documents such as a passport can be used.

    There's a little info here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o

    However a consultation soon about digital ID is still on the cards, so we will have to see what transpires.

  • JW77
    JW77 Online Community Member Posts: 231 Empowering

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o
    Its not a U-turn - honest :D

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 3,263 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1095196#Comment_1095196

    Your link doesn't work

  • Anhedonia
    Anhedonia Online Community Member Posts: 63 Contributor
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1095266#Comment_1095266

    This is the link that @JW77 posted

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,338 Championing

    https://fullfact.org/technology/digital-id-government-proposal-changes/?omhide=true&utm_source=Full+Fact+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a227fa58d7-15%2F01%2F2025-JEC-Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_af27c25bd1-a227fa58d7-646952945

  • JW77
    JW77 Online Community Member Posts: 231 Empowering

    Continuing the thread I came across a Youtube channel called 'Fine Print' that has highlighted the companies the government is still going to use for managing ID data handling. Some don't have a great reputation..

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,969 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1095534#Comment_1095534

    Oh yh it's all working on the background do not trust them

  • geckobat
    geckobat Online Community Member Posts: 195 Empowering

    Catching up with what's been happening so I'm behind on it all but it looks like they haven't scrapped it then? They're still committed to it.

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