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wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

No, they gave the government another reason for a mandatory government id scheme. Something deeply unpopular with a large part of the population, but that Starmer is devoted to.

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Tywele@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
As a German not having a mandatory government ID is so weird to me.

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- wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I don’t like to bring it up, but it was the Germans that convinced us to get rid of them.
  
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  - mjr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    And now you have once, do you think you’ve got away with it, Basil?
    
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ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The ID scheme doesn’t require user identification on a device, which would be superfluous.

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