coruscant@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 10 days agoKeir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UKwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down13
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkKeir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UKwww.theguardian.comcoruscant@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square8linkfedilink
minus-squarethehatfox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·10 days agoAn enormous opportunity for the state to surveil and control the populace that is.
minus-squarejlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 days agoAnd (probably) for his friends who happen to just have the tech handy to realise this project and weirdly get the tender for it. Oh he works at that place now that he’s done woth being a politician? Nothing wrong with that!
minus-squarecoruscant@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-210 days agoNo offense, but are the Brits so worried about ID Cards? I don’t get it. Don’t you already have cameras everywhere in London?
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·10 days agoYes, but we don’t actually want that. We live in a surveillance state and don’t want it to go further.
An enormous opportunity for the state to surveil and control the populace that is.
And (probably) for his friends who happen to just have the tech handy to realise this project and weirdly get the tender for it. Oh he works at that place now that he’s done woth being a politician? Nothing wrong with that!
No offense, but are the Brits so worried about ID Cards?
I don’t get it. Don’t you already have cameras everywhere in London?
Yes, but we don’t actually want that.
We live in a surveillance state and don’t want it to go further.