Keir Starmer’s new digital ID cards won’t say whether someone is a man or a woman, with consultation papers revealing they won’t include any sex or gender data. The Telegraph has the story.
The Government says the details are “not necessary” to prove identity because the cards would be based on “biometric authentication”, but critics claim the revelation makes the introduction of the ID card system “a farce”.
Ministers have launched an eight-week consultation, which closes on May 5th, on the proposals to create a new digital ID for government services. …
The cards could be used to prove an individual’s right to work in the UK in the same way that passports and e-visas are currently used. The Government has argued they will make access to public services “quicker, easier and more secure”. …
It states: “Information about sex and gender is not necessary for the intended purpose of the digital ID. Inclusion of this information would not enhance checks that the digital ID belongs to the person presenting it.
“Checks will be done programmatically and through biometric authentication, neither of which require specific sex or gender data.” …
Claire Coutinho, the Shadow Equalities Minister, said: “Having struggled for so long to define what a woman is, Labour have now decided it’s easier just to abolish the concept entirely.”
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Wow! The Coutinho actually said something cutting and amusing! Seen any airbourne pigs?
“… “quicker, easier and more secure”.
Applying the Sowell Test…
an eight-week consultation…
Got a feeling I’m not going to be consulted.
I expect there will be pressure groups formed to allow your cat or dog to have an ID card so that people confused about their species will not feel discriminated against.
{sarcasm, but only just}
It’s getting more and more difficult to wield sarcasm – sigh.
The Consultation form is here:
https://digitalidconsultation.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/t/haveyoursayondigitalid
Fat lot of good it will do, but maybe worth reiterating our opposition.
Just had a look at the consultation form.
I’ll get myself in trouble if I answer truthfully
I probably went overboard with the “I will never comply” and “I do not trust my government”
“quicker, easier and more secure”: spot the oxymoron. Are they planning to abolish the existing digital IDs to simplify it all? And who is being consulted – we are more than half way through, and lots of us have not been consulted at all.
Usually you can have any two out of three choices, but not all three.
So we can expect the local fried chicken shop to have to use biometric checks before employing someone?
We’ve checked your measurements. Your eyes are too close together.
Or we could just look up the National Insurance Number of the potential employees.
Yes, it’s not only an over-complicated solution to a problem which is already solved – it just won’t work. The idea that a small (any) shop might have to have biometric kit to verify identity is nuts. Instead, we’ll have agencies that will do that for them – and issue a verification paper or electronic certificate for their records. This still won’t verify that the person rocking up to do the work is the person whose identity has been verified. One identity but employed at multiple jobs.
Indeed. It was good enough for the Department for Work & Pensions to start paying the state pension into accounts, after all. Then they carry on using the NI number in all the transactions paid into a bank account, e.g. WKxxxxxxC DWP SP.
The employment eligibility argument is a Trojan Horse.
Yes. Simply enforcing the current rules would be enough.
I would suggest that having any discussion about Digital ID is simply shut down by the statement that these things are not wanted. Moving the debate onto the nonsense of the modern definitions of sex and gender, implies that this mechanism of state control is acceptable, if only it recognises the basic facts of biological sex.
Digital ID is not acceptable in any shape or form.
They will become all-encompassing and compulsory. This is slavery. State ownership and control of the people. The government is introducing slavery and it’s time to recognise it as such.
Nobody I think had terribly high expectations of the Starmer government, but equally I doubt anybody really antipated anything so brutally dystopian, it’s a total orgy of national destruction.
What’s the problem? Some day’s I’m a man. Some days a woman.
Have you (self-)identified any pattern to that?