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I have a memory. Surprisingly good for my Age.
I remember the Blair Government having a Referendum on ID Cards. The country told him the Fuck off.
He then opened the floodgates for immigration, to "Rub The Noses of The Right In It".
Except, was that the only reason?
Now we've had 30 years of unfettered immigration, we have actual terrorists walking our streets and every so often carrying out atrocities. We have hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants roaming the country working in the black economy. They are employed as delivery drivers by corporations that do not care who they employ.
If they're not working illegally, they are raping young girls and sexually assaulting our woman and girls in public.
Guess what?
The current Labour government's answer is... drum roll..... ID Cards! An answer to a problem they created 30 years ago. Some would say deliberately.
Yep, they want to impose digital ID cards on everyone. Despite not everyone having a digital device capable of holding the app, despite government's track record of data security being in the toilet.
The Ministry of Defence being the last victim of hacking. Yes, THAT Ministry of Defence, the ministry in charge of all of our military secrets, wasn't secure enough to prevent a data breach. And I hate to think of the conduits between the MoD and GCHQ and MI6 that could be exploited as a back door into our intelligence services, where the real secrets are.
And what will the purpose of these cards be anyway that cannot be done via alternative means like passports? Are we saying that driving licenses, passports, birth certificates, national insurance numbers, etc. Are all those systems being defeated so comprehensively we need another system entirely?
Are the government admitting that the driver Licencing system, the Passport system, the Birth Certificate system and the National Insurance system are all so utterly compromised that they are unsuitable as systems for the identification of an individual?
Remember when Driving Licences had pictures added so as to identify the driver on the licence? How well is that going then? With all the fake driving licences in circulation providing fake ID for the underage, and illegal immigrants.
Remember when Birth certificates were produced manually and stored as card indexes? Remember when it took a couple of weeks to get a replacement Birth Certificate? Digitalisation has made the service quicker, but has also made the system easier to compromise. All you need to do is bribe someone at the registrar's office that knows the registrar's Used ID and Password and bingo, fake identity created.
Remember when National Insurance Numbers were allocated to you when you were just about to finish school and join the world of work? Remember how you felt as an adult?
Not any more. At 16 you're still classed as a child by the government. Well, until this government decided to have a go at reducing the voting age. But there are plenty of companies doing knock-off N.I. cards.
If those systems are all compromised, then what would be different about the digital ID card system? What is to stop nation state actors from hacking into the system and creating official IDs for their operatives? Currently, with the current abysmal level of security, I would say there's nothing to stop them.
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