So #StarmerOut is strongly committed to spending huge sums developing a Digital ID. The project will go over budget and probably fail, just like previous #TechnoSolutionist fantasies which don't address the real problem.

The question is: how can we make sure this otherwise wasted £££ goes somewhere it will do some good rather than to foreign, #TaxEvading #BigTech?

→ With the AI Act adopted, the #technosolutionist gold-rush can continue
https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2024/05/22/with-the-ai-act-adopted-the-techno-solutionist-gold-rush-can-continue/

“[T]his text is tailor-made for the #tech industry, European #police forces as well as other large bureaucracies eager to automate #socialcontrol. Largely based on #selfregulation, crammed with loopholes, the #AIAct will prove largely incapable of standing in the way of the #social, #political and #environmental damage linked to the proliferation of #AI”