Government to consult on digital IDs for 13-year-olds

(bbc.co.uk)

8 points | by chrisjj 18 hours ago ago

6 comments

  • cs02rm0 18 hours ago ago

    Can someone make the totalitarian fountain of this government stop?

    There's been a significant backlash against this and yet they're just extending it at every turn.

  • pxtail 15 hours ago ago

    It's clever but they need to wrap it a bit more with "think about children" wrapper and appeal to parents instincts using rhetoric like:

    - make your kids online activity safe, monitor and control activity

    - protect your kids against dangerous predators lurking online

    With this strategy it will work flawlessly and without too much opposition.

  • chrisjj 17 hours ago ago

    > an official government response ... says: "This is not a card but a new digital identity that will be available for free..."

    I would like to think this is to be a digital means to /verify existing identity/.

    But no, "a new digital identity"...

    What can possibly go wrong?