"Ministers have switched to promoting #DigitalID, which will be held in a wallet on smartphones, as a way to make life easier for people using public services."

"Despite a distinctly lukewarm reception from the public so far, support from the top for digital ID has never fallen off the agenda. Let's not forget it started life in the form of national #IDCards under former prime minister Tony Blair in the early 2000s."

#UKPol #Labour

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62d1ql5w0vo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1j2nr8kgk3o

A brief timeline of the last time #Labour were in power and they tried to impose #IDCards on the British public - from 2002-2010:

#UKPol

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10164331

UK Government Plans to Charge Admission to National Museums for International Visitors

A terrible idea. Just make art galleries free for all and encourage tourism!

*Reads article*

".. the implementation of charging international visitors to enter national museums is “conditional on the government first rolling out a universal ID scheme, which would make it easier to differentiate domestic and international visitors.”"

FUCK NO!

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/uk-museums-admission-fees-international-visitors-1234779033/

#IDCards #Surveillance #UK #Art #NationalGallery #TateGallery

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUK/116065332116953289

it's bank cards as pseudo ID cards rather than doing it properly. The next step will be store loyalty cards. Afterall, they do know rather a lot about you! #VoterID #UK_politics #IDCards

The government has rolled back a key part of its plans to introduce a digital identity scheme by the end of this parliament.
People will no longer be required to sign up to the digital ID scheme in order to seek work in the UK.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/government/government-backtracks-on-digital-id

#ukgov #ukpol #technews #idcards #digitalid