Digital ID needs to be resisted, surely?

What exactly do you think will happen in the future, what do you mean by controlled and how will the government carry out this presumed control?
It's pointless throwing out this type of comment just because you've seen some random rubbish spouted by a brainless idiot on tiktok or instagram.
I can guarantee you haven't come up with this theory by listening to or reading intelligent debate on serious news programmes or broadsheets.

Do you not remember the digital ID-basee detention during COVID, then?

However it quite simply won't work for all areas of the UK such as Northern Ireland where so many people class themselves as Irish as opposed to British and don't have British Ids such as passports and have Irish provision for this instead.

Stopping people from claiming asylum is a breach of human rights law which we absolutely do not want to be undermining as it benefits us all on the daily in many ways. Different for those who have had a claim denied and who fled, but those numbers are very, very low.

Exactly.
All the people kicking up a stink will already have allowed government access to their data via their passport and driving licence. If you bank and shop or buy any services online all those organisations have your bank and personal details stored and you're presumably perfectly happy with that. So much can be found out about you and your past from social media if you've ever used it, how much you bought your house for can be seen online.
It won't make a blind bit of difference to anyone's life to have digital ID.

It always amazes me how many people on Mumsnet can foretell the future!

They always seem to be negative about everything.
They rarely back up their claims.

It must be exhausting knowing the future and that we are doomed!

Horizon.

I am surprised how quickly people have forgotten that digital IDs were used to lock people up in many countries for having been detected in the same room as someone who had COVID. Random detention without warning for two weeks or more.

Meanwhile as pp note the government just lets criminal activity run unchecked.

Even if you don't care about you and your kids being detained in the future, why don't you care about paying for something that doesn't achieve anything??

But lots of critics are saying the gov already has the information

Some people like to be run by the government though, especially on here, look how they all wanted to be controlled by that Covid tracking app

People who don't seem bothered need to wake up quickly their is no conspiracy if this happens the future will be very controlled

The digital ID will be connected to our banks and they will be able to switch it off in an instant should we join a protest they don't like, critique them in any way on social media.

but can't they do this now?

You are using social media.
I bet you have a driving licence.
You gave away your information years ago, so what are you worried about?

It won't fo a thing about illegal migration but it may help the government enforce rules later on down the line when we become a cashless society. The digital ID will be connected to our banks and they will be able to switch it off in an instant should we join a protest they don't like, critique them in any way on social media. It will eventually be connected to everything which will be a virtual prison. Once we all have one, the possibilities for control are extreme. Lots of MPs are coming together to sign a joint letter opposing this. It sounds like a slippery slope. I'd like to think it's a conspiracy, but the agenda 2050 all points in this direction.

You may not agree with it but most countries have a national ID.

Yep.

Very much agree with this.@

I completely agree with you. It’s very scary to think what this could lead to in the future. Does Starmer think we’re all fools who’ll actually believe this is about illegal immigration? It won’t make a blind bit of difference and they’ll carry on working illegally just as they have been.

Honestly, I've probably got more information on my phone than will be on a digital ID so I can't see what the big issue with it is

I hold a digital as well as physical ID card in an EU country. I don’t remember anyone holding a gun to my head insisting I had to download the digital version. It is a choice.

This

I really invite you to go in to your phone’s accessibility settings and see just how many aids there are for people who have all sorts of impairments who use smartphones as tools in life in general. Things that for people with no accessibility needs wouldn’t even know their phones were capable of.

Digital IDs will not replace physical documents for those who should need them. Further down the thread someone mentions an 83YO. This person will be retired and won’t need to use a digital ID for employment.

We also need to look beyond illegal immigration here. This is not the sole purpose of the program.

Yes, the international police do have the good sense to coordinate. But that is a particular and exceptional system. Our immigration system and our routine systems do not make any checks. Our civil servants were angry at the Brexit vote and ensured as ever that the 'deals' were whatever disadvantaged U.K. This can only have been forced by our own civil servants: It is unlikely to the point of being unbelievable, that international crime cooperation including fingerprint exchanges would have been something the E.U. and all other world countries would have insisted upon. As Interpol proves, everyone benefits from mutual cooperation and exchange of information.

Switching off bank accounts if we do something they don't like or drive too many miles in the name of 'climate change'.

Why do the gov need id cards to do the above?

How will it help ? police won’t stop and search and demand ID. Illegals will go on being undocument illegals . It’s just a money spinnng scheme bought into by people who think it will solve illegal immigration problem.

Excellent point