Post #2919754

2026-04-27 13:39 UTC

Do you believe there are any other wider impacts from introducing the national digital ID system that have not been considered in this consultation? * The implications of forcing people to always go by one specific name all the time have clearly not been taken into account at all. The impact this puts on married women who want to work under their birth name and on people (especially women) trying to escape domestic abuse have not been taken into account.

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@celesteh@hachyderm.io 2026-04-27 13:57

Is there anything else not covered by these questions that you wish to share with us as part of this consultation? [please reword] * The proposed universal collection of biometric data is a massive government overreach. Coupled with the wide deployment of facial recognition technology, this creates extremely totalitarian potentials to track us every time we walk around our cities, buy a pint, log on to social media, or look at erotic content. There is no compelling state interest to collect or use this data, but the digital ID system would do so (or making doing so extremely easy.) We have a moral right to privacy. * This system, since it involves Apple and Google, is reliant on US companies and therefore works or breaks at the whims of the US government. If microsoft can unilaterally lock out people working at the International Criminal Court, Google and Apple can disable our IDs just as easily. If we implement this, we have ceded sovereignty over our own ability to work to the veto of the US government. They are an unreliable partner making expansionist demands to annex European territory. They could cut off the entire UK. They could cut off specific people. They could decide that transgender data updates are invalid and revoke them. Because this would rely not just on central servers but also on millions of individual devices running US operating systems, there is no way to prevent foreign interference. This is a major loss of sovereignty. * No digital ID system deployed anywhere in the world has had any measurable effect on irregular migration, but the Indian system that you wish to emulate has lead to children starving to death. This does not solve the problem you want to solve, but instead creates new, different problems and makes existing problems worse. * The people for whom digital ID would be easy are people who already have easy access to ID. This creates additional barriers for marginalised people.

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