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BRANDED wrote: ↑03 Oct 2025, 10:02 Mu brother in law was head of IT for a top 10 FTSE company. He says they have done none of the analysis required. 

We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies. We will consult on details soon.

The Government has announced plans to introduce a digital ID system which is fit for the needs of modern Britain. We are committed to making people’s everyday lives easier and more secure, to putting more control in their hands (including over their own data), and to driving growth through harnessing digital technology. We also want to learn from countries which have digitised government services for the benefit of their citizens, in line with our manifesto commitment to modernise government.Currently, when UK citizens and residents use public services, start a new job, or, for example, buy alcohol, they often need to present an assortment of physical documents to prove who they are or things about themselves. This is both bureaucratic for the individual and creates space for abuse and fraud. This includes known issues with illegal working and modern slavery, while the fragmented approach and multiple systems across Government make it difficult for people to access vital services. Further, there are too many people who are excluded, like the 1 in 10 UK adults who don’t have a physical photo ID, so can struggle to prove who they are and access the products and services they are entitled to.

To tackle these interlinked issues, we will introduce a new national digital ID. This is not a card but a new digital identity that will be available for free to all UK citizens and legal residents aged 16 and over (although we will consider through consultation if this should be age 13 and over). Over time, people will be able to use it to seamlessly access a range of public and private sector services, with the aim of making our everyday lives easier and more secure. It will not be compulsory to obtain a digital ID but it will be mandatory for some applications.For example, the new digital ID will build on GOV.UK One Login and the GOV.UK Wallet to drive the transformation of public services. Over time, this system will allow people to access government services – such as benefits or tax records – without needing to remember multiple logins or provide physical documents. It will significantly streamline interactions with the state, saving time and reducing frustrating paperwork, while also helping to create opportunities for more joined up government services. International examples show how beneficial this can be. For instance, Estonia’s system reportedly saves each citizen hours every month by streamlining unnecessary bureaucracy, and the move to becoming a digital society has saved taxpayer money.

By the end of this Parliament, employers will have to check the new digital ID when conducting a ‘right to work’ check. This will help combat criminal gangs who promise access to the UK labour market in order to profit from dangerous and illegal channel crossings. It will create a fairer system between UK citizens and legal residents, crack down on forged documents, and streamline the process for employers, driving up compliance. Further, it will create business information showing where employers are conducting checks, so driving more targeted action against non-compliant employers.

For clarity, it will not be a criminal offence to not hold a digital ID and police will not be able to demand to see a digital ID as part of a “stop and search.”

Privacy and security will also be central to the digital ID programme. We will follow data protection law and best practice in creating a system which people can rightly put their trust in. People in the UK already know and trust digital credentials held in their phone wallets to use in their everyday lives, from paying for things to storing boarding passes. The new system will be built on similar technology and be your boarding pass to government. Digitally checkable digital credentials are more secure than physical documents which can be lost, copied or forged, and often mean sharing more information than just what is necessary for a given transaction.
The new system will be designed in accordance with the highest security standards to protect against a comprehensive range of threats, including cyber-attacks.

We will launch a public consultation in the coming weeks and work closely with employers, trade unions, civil society groups and other stakeholders, to co-design the scheme and ensure it is as secure and inclusive as possible. Following consultation, we will seek to bring forward legislation to underpin this system.

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑30 Sep 2025, 09:23 My expectation is that once this ludicrously delayed budget appears in late November & lands like a turd in the punchbowl that Andy Burnham will make his move to return to Parliament & oust Starmer
See where we are next year but if they don’t get any traction we are on our way to Farage in government & civil war like in America when Trump announces he is doing a third term

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑30 Sep 2025, 09:23 My expectation is that once this ludicrously delayed budget appears in late November & lands like a turd in the punchbowl that Andy Burnham will make his move to return to Parliament & oust Starmer
See where we are next year but if they don’t get any traction we are on our way to Farage in government & civil war like in America when Trump announces he is doing a third term

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑30 Sep 2025, 08:38 Does amuse me that after 14 years of abysmal mismanagement of migration by the Tories everyone (Tories) reckon Labour should have stopped it in just over a year
Have they done enough & are they doing enough? NO
But as Farage says the bomb of people lining up to gain right to remain was down to the incompetent clown Boris Johnson

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑30 Sep 2025, 08:38 Have they done enough & are they doing enough? NO
 

nerd2 wrote: ↑27 Sep 2025, 08:02 So your details are here and every social media platform known to man ,they probably even know what time you wank and on what site. You have bank cards with your money info all over the world and your phone is spewing your information everywhere. You already have a passport ,driving licence and medical record and you NI number is everywhere . You allow amazon ,eBay , porn hub,Spotify, paypal to have your details and access to your accounts. Yet this is invasion of privacy , you gave upto the billionaires but not the government so very bizarre when you want to make it difficult for people to come here and work illegally. Not sure what you actually want . Even your car monitors your travel these days and where you going through maps or sat nav. Try getting in a city centre bar without id then have to give up your biometrics as they take pics . We are already well past this. Unless your hiding something.

nerd2 wrote: ↑27 Sep 2025, 08:02 So your details are here and every social media platform known to man ,they probably even know what time you wank and on what site. You have bank cards with your money info all over the world and your phone is spewing your information everywhere. You already have a passport ,driving licence and medical record and you NI number is everywhere . You allow amazon ,eBay , porn hub,Spotify, paypal to have your details and access to your accounts. Yet this is invasion of privacy , you gave upto the billionaires but not the government so very bizarre when you want to make it difficult for people to come here and work illegally. Not sure what you actually want . Even your car monitors your travel these days and where you going through maps or sat nav. Try getting in a city centre bar without id then have to give up your biometrics as they take pics . We are already well past this. Unless your hiding something.

Takashi Miike" wrote: ↑27 Sep 2025, 10:39 look at ginger bollocks agreeing with every dumb cսnt that agrees with his thick, totalitarian mindset

nerd2 wrote: ↑27 Sep 2025, 08:02 So your details are here and every social media platform known to man ,they probably even know what time you wank and on what site. You have bank cards with your money info all over the world and your phone is spewing your information everywhere. You already have a passport ,driving licence and medical record and you NI number is everywhere . You allow amazon ,eBay , porn hub,Spotify, paypal to have your details and access to your accounts. Yet this is invasion of privacy , you gave upto the billionaires but not the government so very bizarre when you want to make it difficult for people to come here and work illegally. Not sure what you actually want . Even your car monitors your travel these days and where you going through maps or sat nav. Try getting in a city centre bar without id then have to give up your biometrics as they take pics . We are already well past this. Unless your hiding something.

riosleftsock wrote: ↑28 Sep 2025, 21:00 Sometimes you have to take one for the team, once digital IDs are mandatory you will lose a lot more liberty than signing this

Pretty sure gank was cracking a joke

Takashi Miike" wrote: ↑27 Sep 2025, 10:39 look at ginger bollocks agreeing with every dumb cսnt that agrees with his thick, totalitarian mindset