We’re constantly told that the country is broke, taxes will need to go up, old ladies will need to freeze, the disabled don’t deserve what few benefits they get… but we’ve got 1.8B to spend on a scheme that will eventually balloon to 4B+ so that hackers and fraudsters can get access to every piece of information about everyone all in one place, just so we can be spied on even more than we already are.
Fuck Reeves.
Fuck Starmer.
Fuck Labour, and anyone that voted for those cunts.
Because no system is perfectly secure. It only takes one foolish mistake by someone with global access to the data, and it’s leaked forever, and they have forever to keep trying.
I thoroughly dislike the idea of a digital ID, but I still believe it would massively improve the Government’s ability to detect fraud, avoid multi-agency failures and support better data-led decision making - I could conceivably see these changes leading to significantly more than £1.8 billion in savings over a relatively short time-span.
This does not mean I support it in any shape, but I think it’s important to acknowledge that it isn’t only a means of better controlling people, but it could offer real tangible efficiency savings.
edit: On no, the downvote brigade is here and they have no time for reasoned debate.
If we had capable leadership, I’d absolutely agree with you. Evidence is telling me that’s just not happening, and not going to happen any time soon, though. Instead, it’s far more likely any data they do get will be “anonymised”, bundled up and sold off to a company the person making the decision has a large stake in, if not by this government than by the next.
No idea why would would be downvoted without a comment, though. It might be wishful thinking, but your commentary is legitimate.
We’re constantly told that the country is broke, taxes will need to go up, old ladies will need to freeze, the disabled don’t deserve what few benefits they get… but we’ve got 1.8B to spend on a scheme that will eventually balloon to 4B+ so that hackers and fraudsters can get access to every piece of information about everyone all in one place, just so we can be spied on even more than we already are.
Fuck Reeves.
Fuck Starmer.
Fuck Labour, and anyone that voted for those cunts.
How would you know that?
Because no system is perfectly secure. It only takes one foolish mistake by someone with global access to the data, and it’s leaked forever, and they have forever to keep trying.
I thoroughly dislike the idea of a digital ID, but I still believe it would massively improve the Government’s ability to detect fraud, avoid multi-agency failures and support better data-led decision making - I could conceivably see these changes leading to significantly more than £1.8 billion in savings over a relatively short time-span.
This does not mean I support it in any shape, but I think it’s important to acknowledge that it isn’t only a means of better controlling people, but it could offer real tangible efficiency savings.
edit: On no, the downvote brigade is here and they have no time for reasoned debate.
If we had capable leadership, I’d absolutely agree with you. Evidence is telling me that’s just not happening, and not going to happen any time soon, though. Instead, it’s far more likely any data they do get will be “anonymised”, bundled up and sold off to a company the person making the decision has a large stake in, if not by this government than by the next.
No idea why would would be downvoted without a comment, though. It might be wishful thinking, but your commentary is legitimate.