ID Cards Coming to the UK – The Thin End of the Wedge

RTB · Oct 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM

CyrilleRegisLeBris said: ↑

I agree totally with OP.

They have used this in other countries and it has been problematic, as you're tied to the system for daily online activities, healthcare and transactions, so if it goes down then you're stuck until it's fixed. You're giving hackers a one stop shop for personal details and how secure will your data be. I seem to recall a DHSS centre in the 90's or early 20's(maybe Washington child benefit office?) losing an unsecure USB stick with thousands of people's info including bank account details on it.

It reminds me of the recent child safety act to include face ID to prove you're over 18, when people could have simply used parental apps on a device level to stop their kids watching adult material. Implement face ID's and dress it up as 'porno ban', then later the face recognition can be brought into other things. Now another similar tactic they use the illegal immigrant excuse for this digital ID scheme. Many of the channel crossers who throw away any ID, won't be looking for legal work anyway, so it will hardly deter them.

Going this way, before too long they'll be no hard cash, so the government can track all your assets, investments and transactions. If the government need it, they can confiscate to rebuild like in 1930's USA with gold bullion. In those situations the elite will have devised something to protect their wealth so they are untouched.

For the people that approve of this government surveillance scheme with the 'if you have nothing to hide... spiel'.
How many of you use VPN on these football forums?
VPNs could be banned also if there's to be no secrecy, as people say only dodgy characters value their privacy, right?
The government won't want anon bitcoin traders and so forth, so VPN will be on their hit list. Goodbye to your firestick football.

Mind you, I wouldn't mind a specific company dealing with social media and forum user ID checks, as would weed out the multi-account users(used mostly for troublemaking, self arguing, or self support), all forms of social internet interaction would be better for it.
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CyrilleRegisLeBris · Oct 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM

RTB said: ↑

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Haha

I was on 56k internet, before todays budding social media mobile internet Robert Peston's could manage to turn a computer on, and was building PC's 20 years ago.

Got nowt against new technology, so long as it isn't controlling my life and being big brother.

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