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It's incredibly misleading to call a phone app a "card". This is much worse than it sounds. Am I going to be forced to buy a smartphone? Am I going to be forced
by mrob 1y ago
It's incredibly misleading to call a phone app a "card". This is much worse than it sounds. Am I going to be forced to buy a smartphone? Am I going to be forced to run non-Free software? Am I going to be forced to enter into a restrictive contract with a foreign corporation?
- octo888 1y agoHah this is the UK. No, it'll be optional to begin with to make people like you asking important questions seem like a whacko. Then once they use propaganda to make people opt into it, and it reaches mass adoption, then it'll quietly be made mandatory - or extremely annoying not to have it
- LinAGKar 1y agoNo, it will be mandatory right from the start, and employers will be required to check it https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/digital-id-card-uk-what-starmer-labour-immigrants-b2834064.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/digital-id-ca...
- octo888 1y agoAre you suggesting they will draft the law in such a way that in order not to be fired people must download this thing onto a smartphone and show it to their employer, post-haste? Your link does not support any evidence of that (the line " will be mandatory for every worker in the UK" links to just another one of their own articles, which also does not support it). I imagine it'll be phased in for new employment. No, it won't be mandatory in all situations all at once, for every facet of life (I did not specify employment).
- kypro 1y agoYep. It's literally always this way. It's starts with "we hope everyone will do the right thing". To, "it's concerning some people are refusing to do their part". To finally, "do it now or we'll lock you in a cage".