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Starmer’s live facial recognition plan would usher in national ID, campaigners say
(www.theguardian.com)
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As someone in the UK I don't understand it either...
How many of these people opposing a National ID already have a driving licence or passport?
Yeah, my initial reaction was that it's not like THE GOVERNMENT doesn't already have your photo and relevant information if you have either one of those (well, assuming driving licenses are national in the UK which I take it they are?), but I of course understand that there could be other factors at play here that I'm not aware of
I think that it's not that people are scared of the Government having that information; it's that they are afraid that a national ID scheme will make indexing, organising, and retrieving that information easier.
Right, yeah, I guess that makes sense, although I guess that even if that were the case my question would be "so what?", and I feel a bit doubtful that a national ID scheme would make it markedly easier than it already is at any rate, what with driving licenses etc.
Because it's been an EU proposal that has been on the cards for ages and was always resisted by the UK government because everyone since it was proposed it has been an easy target for politicians to sling shit at reasonable ideas out of Brussels.