Post #2961428

2025-09-26 15:00 UTC

@underseamonkey@fosstodon.org @TimWardCam@c.im @jonpsp@mstdn.social @cfy@mas.to @AlisonW@fedimon.uk Why would it need to be in a single place? It's not required to make an ID card, either physical or digital. My belgian card is a physical card with a certificate signed by the state's certificate authority. There is no overarching database with everything about me in it. That certificate can then be used to authenticate to the online taxes portal, the online benefits portal. The chip on the card only contains the exact same things printed on it

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@underseamonkey@fosstodon.org 2025-09-26 15:04

@edzilla@social.edzilla.info @TimWardCam@c.im @jonpsp@mstdn.social @cfy@mas.to @AlisonW@fedimon.uk And the thing is, the British government is both phenomenonally bad at this but also tends towards a centralising instinct. Other than the US, the worst place to implement an ID system as a citizen is the UK.

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@duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk 2025-09-26 15:38

@edzilla@social.edzilla.info @underseamonkey@fosstodon.org @TimWardCam@c.im @jonpsp@mstdn.social @cfy@mas.to @AlisonW@fedimon.uk best case senario the British government is going to pay a private company to run this. That company will not have serious oversight. The company will keep offering to collect more and more data in the name of "efficiency". They will under invest in security and safety and make sure the tax payer is left to bail them ou for fixing problems caused by their lack of investment. Because that's how we do things in the UK. 1/2

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