On Digital ID

No, just NO!

Digital ID is so wrong on so many levels. 

The first being it's Euan Blair, Tony's son who is involved with the company that will be creating the Digital ID system. Yes, that Tony Blair whop wanted Id cards back in the Nineties and who was told to Fuck off by the population in a referendum (sound familiar?). Being an out-of-touch politician isn't a recent phenomenon.

Being an ex-IT contractor, I know the scale of teh project. To house all the data of all the people in the country is an extreme project. It's quite obviously beyond the capability of IT companies to do it quickly and on-budget. Not only that, it's beyond their capability to create a secure system that will withstand hundreds of thousands of enquiries  a day and at the same time keep it secure from the hundreds of thousands of illicit access attempts.

If we can't keep M.O.D. data secure, what hope for Digital ID? Even worse when it starts to combine not just identification, but other data. There have been a number of failed attempts to combine NHS data, benefits data, etc. This will be no exception.

From an intelligence standpoint, once your identity is in a single place, along with your medical data and any predilections you may have discussed with your doctor, along with tracking data, the tranche of data on you becomes a blackmailer's wet dream. 

Just let's say you are a politician who has a liking for young girls and you've checked onto a scheme in an attempt to cure your addiction. All on record. All together with payments, tracking, you name it. 

The government says it will be more convenient. Than what? Pulling a driving Licence out of a wallet?

More convenient than pulling a birth certificate out of a cupboard?

And history has warned us not to sacrifice freedom for convenience. When we do that, bad things happen to us.