UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

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• Silinde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We’re constantly told that the country is broke, taxes will need to go up, old ladies will need to freeze, the disabled don’t deserve what few benefits they get… but we’ve got 1.8B to spend on a scheme that will eventually balloon to 4B+ so that hackers and fraudsters can get access to every piece of information about everyone all in one place, just so we can be spied on even more than we already are. Fuck Reeves. Fuck Starmer. Fuck Labour, and anyone that voted for those cunts.

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• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck off, I’m not paying £1.8B for a digital ID that I don’t even want!

  What’s wrong with my Blockbuster membership card?

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not paying £1.8B for a digital

    I don’t think that’s how this works. Labour will spend your money how it sees fit and you’ll like it.

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  • Photo55@mastodon.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @Hossenfeffer @als
    I can almost hear people saying "we'll need your digital #ID, and three other forms of ID."
    Encourages the wrong sort of people.

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• Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Is that all?”

  In the end it was not, in fact, all.

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Jesus fucking christ, imagine all the good the UK could have achieved with 1.8 BILLION fucking pounds

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• zwerg@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We don’t need a new digital id, we need new ventilators for babies and bullet proof vests for soldiers. Or, being a bit more serious, why not use it to extend HS2

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