Calamity Joan 😷

In news that will surprise nobody concerned with data protection and fundamental rights: "Government to make Public Services Card a form of identity"

https://www.thejournal.ie/government-to-make-public-services-card-a-form-of-identity-7012903-Apr2026/

"The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) have said they are “seriously concerned” about the move."

#MastoDaoine #DigitalRights #Biometrics #PSC

Government to make Public Services Card a form of identity

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) have said they are “seriously concerned” about the move.

TheJournal.ie
Apr 15 at 6:28amWeb
Show threadTAL21h ago
@clickhere even Seaosaimhin Eailianoir wants nothing to do it with it any more
Show threadCalamity Joan 😷16h ago
@tal Who?
Show threadTAL16h ago
@clickhere ah it was the name given to the identity on their PR photos, like "J Ireland" on old credit card ads
Show threadCalamity Joan 😷7h ago
@tal Oh! Hah, I had forgotten all about those weird fake identities..!
Show threadIanMoore300016h ago
@clickhere I always feel like I am missing something with the PSC debate. Why is a allowing people to use a PSC card as a form of ID a big deal?
Show threadCalamity Joan 😷7h ago

@IanMoore3000 The ICCL and @dri sum it up better than I can in the link below, but to start - and most fundamentally of all - there is no legal basis for the existence of the PSC and associated database capturing most of the population.

https://www.iccl.ie/press-release/public-services-card-expansion-national-id-card/

#PSC #ICCL #MastoDaoine #DataProtection #DigitalRights

Show threadIanMoore30007h ago
@clickhere @dri I still don't really get it. Is it the card or the database that's the problem? Like is there anything on the card that isn't already on something like a passport? And even if there is no card, the state is still going to hold a lot of data on people.