Post #2961453

@jonpsp@mstdn.social @cfy@mas.to @edzilla@social.edzilla.info @AlisonW@fedimon.uk All Whitehall IT projects are subject to scope creep at levels that wouldn't be acceptable or sustainable even elsewhere in the public sector so the likelihood of the digital ID creating a single point of failure has the additional risk that the security of the data will be compromised by the variety of uses applied but not designed for. And then further undermined by "We have all this data, we should do something with it," which also won't have been designed for by the policymakers (but sure as buttons will have been designed for by the tech companies being gifted all this data). Bear in mind that this project involves the same system thinking and accountability that had subpostmasters jailed for a known systems glitch and spent the money on a new Transpennine rail system digging holes in the Cotswolds.