Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can’t read the full article, but it says it’ll be optional. That sounds like they’re still wanting to develop it, spend the money, and then say “well now we’ve got it, it would be silly not to use it!”

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  • yuumei@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Exactly, this is how Labour force ID, then on to verifying your ID before you can use the internet, all posts will be moderated by government AI produced by Palantir

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      From the BBC article:

      The Liberal Democrats said the policy was “doomed to failure” from the start and called for “the billions of pounds earmarked for their mandatory digital ID scheme” to be spent “on the NHS and frontline policing instead”.

      Damn right. We want our money spent on something useful.

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• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good news! No doubt the next Labour government will try again though.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This same one will try for other bills that similarly surrender their populations to tech in other ways.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Quietly rolls back policy after the news cycle has moved on… Interesting

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh sweet, I can hate labour slightly less. Drop the OSA next and I might even be able to reluctantly approve of them.

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  • rollin@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Drop the OSA, free all the non-violent protesters, drop the threat to Jury trials, and publicly apologise for being a complete fascist cunt. Then, maybe they deserve a second chance.

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    • unknown@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And stop sending weapons to israel

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, all the other bad things they did too…

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• ambitiousslab@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m happy this has happened. I’m still pretty wary, though. Can there be a cross party debate and agreement on what the limits should be? I worry this will just get pushed through later on, like the encryption backdoor clause of the OSA.

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• elgordino@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good. The gov.uk ‘one login’ they are already rolling out is plenty good enough without the massive overreach of digital id.

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  • ImNotThatPokable@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not from the UK and also don’t have any background on this, can you perhaps explain why it’s overreach?

    I would think that ID documents being digital is a logical step to digitisation.

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• scott@lem.free.as ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  archive.ph/KcC8u

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• Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is there any major Labour policy that hasn’t been U-turned on?

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  • towerful@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’d rather they u-turned shitty ideas than waffle-stomp them through.
    How the fuck the OSA seemed to just drift through is astounding

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Because unfortunately, all our politicians want it, and the public wants it too.

      Reddit and Lemmy are very much in the minority on OSA.

      Which is a shame, because I find the OSA to be stupid and unworkable.

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  • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Support of genocide?

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They publicly condemned Israel, committed to arresting Netanyahu if he ever came here, sanctioned much of the Israeli parliament, refused to join the US/Israel in attacking Iran, ramped up humanitarian aid for Palestine, stopped weapons exports to Israel, and formally recognised Palestine.

      I struggle to see this rabid support of Israel that Lemmy posters always seem to talk about.

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  • Buckshot@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I genuinely don’t understand everyone complaining about u-turns. Setting aside that this isn’t really a u-turn, they’re still doing it, just won’t be mandatory.

    Would you rather a government that dogmatically sticks to every single idea they have regardless of public opinion, or a government that changes its policies in response to feedback?

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    • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My issue is the government coming up with ideas that everyone can see from the outset are doomed to fail, for seemingly arbritray reasons, and then rolling them back when the inevitable happens.

      Winter fuel being the most glaring: we need to show the banks we’re fiscally responsible, we then have no material change in how the banks view the government but have a minor shift in the forecasts for 5 years time, we’ve done it, we’re fiscally responsible now so pensioners can have their £500 back.

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Support for Brexit.

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They did not support Brexit.

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• Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  MP’s first

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