thehatfox@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 17 days agoKeir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital IDwww.thetimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square38linkfedilinkarrow-up1197arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1195arrow-down1external-linkKeir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital IDwww.thetimes.comthehatfox@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square38linkfedilinkfile-text
I wouldn’t normally post Times articles but they seem to be the first to run this bit of rare good news.
minus-squareImNotThatPokable@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 days agoI’m not from the UK and also don’t have any background on this, can you perhaps explain why it’s overreach? I would think that ID documents being digital is a logical step to digitisation.
minus-squareelgordino@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 days agoThis is pretty much aligned with my POV: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/
I’m not from the UK and also don’t have any background on this, can you perhaps explain why it’s overreach?
I would think that ID documents being digital is a logical step to digitisation.
This is pretty much aligned with my POV: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/