Jakule17Sep 26, 2025
Esther Payne 

The thing to bear in mind with any centralised biometric ID system in the UK is:

1) Do you really want palantir (Peter Thiel) whose secondary market is insurance to get their grubby paws on it?

2) Do you want Farage and his group of nerdowells to get their grubby paws on it?

3) Bad actors including The US and criminals around the world?

They aren't qualified to handle that data.

Sep 26, 2025 at 12:08pmWeb
Show threadDoug WebbSep 26, 2025

@onepict missed the memo, guess this is being proposed rn?

German/other ID cards have a chip built in that can be used for proof of persoonhood, which *could* be very useful in an internet filled with deepfakes *if* people aren't doxxing themselves in the process... (And this is a distinctly non-biometric approach)

Show threadEsther Payne Sep 26, 2025

@douginamug yet again a Labour Government wants to introduce an ID card scheme. Historically Brits are against this sort of thing. Our grandparents were very glad when they were abolished.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-digital-id-brit-card-uk-labour-illegal-migrants-b2834065.html

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

Every UK adult will need ‘Brit card’ digital ID under Starmer plan to tackle illegal migration

Civil liberties groups warn mandatory digital IDs risk pushing ‘unauthorised migrants further into the shadows’

The Independent
Show threadEsther Payne Sep 26, 2025
@douginamug I also do not trust this Government not to farm it out to the current crop of digital partners.
Show threadMichał KucharczykSep 26, 2025
@onepict it amazes me how Palantir company branding is over the top "we are the evil guys". It's the real life equivalent of "They literally call themselves Decepticons... That doesn't set off any red flags?"
Show threadPasswordsarehard4Sep 26, 2025
@michal_kucharczyk @onepict Amazon tried the whole “don’t be evil” thing. The profits went up, yeah, but then they leveled off. Obviously a failed model, time to go the other way.
Show threadMichał KucharczykSep 26, 2025
@passwordsarehard4 @onepict Amazon? When? "Don't be evil" was a Google motto until they infamously scratched it from the walls and websites under thr cover of the night.
Show threadPasswordsarehard4Sep 26, 2025
@michal_kucharczyk @onepict I’m sure your right, they’re all evil so it’s hard for me to tell them apart.
Show threadMostlyTatoSep 26, 2025
@onepict
Palantir is going to become embedded in every aspect of UK life, quietly shuffling all that precious info to its US masters to train AI, monitor us, discriminate against certain demographics and have everything ready for the NHS private insurers takeover when Fromage gets into power.
Show threadCharlie StrossSep 26, 2025
@MostlyTato @onepict @AlisonW NoNoNo, you're lissing Palantir's REAL end-game which is to organize the Rapture on behalf of St. Peter of Thiel, to prepare the world for the arrival of AI Jesus. (NB: "to be raptured" will be 2030's slang for "disappeared" or "ethnically cleansed for being insufficiently white and christian".)
Show threadMostlyTatoSep 26, 2025
@cstross @onepict @AlisonW
I'd have thought you were joking of I hadn't read the recent article. 😲🤔😏
Show threadKhleedrilSep 26, 2025

@onepict

> Do you really want palantir (Peter Thiel) whose secondary market is insurance to get their grubby paws on it?

Just, fucking, no.