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"As a professional software developer, I put the odds that the UK government will be able to pull off this enormous centralised IT scheme without scandal at about 0%. I have no confidence in the current government’s ability to resist the honeyed words of American tech giants"

Eight people react to Starmer’s digital ID proposal.

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‘A hacker’s dream’: Britons on Keir Starmer’s plan for digital ID cards | Identity cards | The Guardian
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‘A hacker’s dream’: Britons on Keir Starmer’s plan for digital ID cards

Views range from concerns over civil liberties and cybersecurity, to welcoming it as a helpful system to streamline services
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Jonathan Schofield

“in France in 1872, the government made a conscious decision not to collect certain kinds of data about people, including data about their religious affiliation,” Veliz said. “The result was that the Nazis found and killed about 73 percent of the Jewish population in the Netherlands, and in France, 25 percent of the Jewish population were killed.”

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Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)

@modulux@node.isonomia.net we found out in the 1940s what happens when we collect excessive data. And now politics is turning rightwards again. I guess we learned nothing https://bowdoinorient.
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@tofm2 my reason for referring to what happened under the Nazis is not to bring religion into it. It’s to highlight what happens when data collected under a ‘benign’ government becomes available to a subsequent malign government. Once you have an unambiguous signifier of who you are which you are mandated to carry, it becomes trivially easy for such a government to look up all the data they hold that’s associated with that signifier. Hence June’s cautionary “Yet”

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