Readers clash over digital ID cards – from ‘Big Brother state’ fears to ‘making life easier’

PAs part of the government’s efforts to combat illegal migration, the LANs to introduce digital identity cards Independent Readers divide the view almost equally.

A recent survey of our community, arguing that the cards of the cards can help to reduce the benefit of benefit, to limit the close gaps and illegal work that benefit from the gangs, and that many of them were seen as an important “pulling factor ındaki behind the channel transitions and found 50 percent in favor of the movement.

Some pointed out systems that are already in force throughout Europe, saying that Britain is behind in adopting modern guarantees.

However, 44 percent of them opposed the idea by saying that they would undermine confidentiality and civilian freedoms. A few readers described this as the first step towards a “dystopic nightmare ve and forced ordinary people to force their identity to advance their daily life.

They argued that digital identities would not stop small boat transitions and instead would punish citizens who follow the law.

Many interpretations have made a deep skepticism as to whether the government’s focus on identity cards deals with the real driving forces of migration. Others saw this as another example of politicians who reached their title policies without fighting for root reasons.

Here is what you have to say:

ID cards work well abroad and protect freedoms

I lived and worked abroad, where identity cards were compulsory and that civilian freedoms appeared much better than the UK.

We already have a national insurance number and most of them carry a photo driver, or most of the old generation carry a photo bus passage.

Of course, those who want to exploit the workers who have to accept low cash fees will cry, but if we really want to solve the problem, if we make efforts to quickly process asylum claims, they have established an official way to allow them to apply for shelter, and they are not bottled for those who have been processed.

ifonlyitwastrue

ID cards make life easier

I want to have an identity card in the United Kingdom, because it will make my life much easier, not to stop illegal migration. Living in Belgium is mandatory to carry identity and I can use it for everything – health, banking, taxes, travel. Priceless. It is boring to deal with banks and the government in the UK … I had to pay twice to prove my identity while buying a house. I need to remember multiple password sets to call the bank and over and over again. I don’t understand that people are so happy to give every aspect of their lives to Google and the like, but they don’t have an identity.

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A right is not an obligation

Since I was a childhood, I have a Portuguese national identity card, and I really don’t really see how to do most things without him. If I set up a self -employed or a company, it contains my citizen identity number, my social security number and my financial number. Like everything about you on a single card. It allows me to visit the EU and AEA without the need for passports or limitations, even entering or abandoning the UK under the EU withdrawal agreement.

It is not an obligation, but the right to have a national identity card. Basically, I was never forced to have it, nor was it forced to renew, but everything without it would be more difficult.

Kako

No disadvantage

To be honest, I don’t know what a great deal of agreement on carrying an ID card. I’ve been living in Europe and I’ve had one since Brexit was applied. For legal purposes for a single time that I want to show this (to save housing, because I am not under the EU 90/180 rule), something important in the bank (account change, etc.) or big purchases or signing a credit agreement.

I can’t imagine other conditions when I want to present. All the frightening around the police state, frankly a lot of Blox. It was much more convenient than a passport, and it was considered identity all over the EU. I don’t see a disadvantage.

Nicksb

None of your work

I do not carry an identity card in peace under any circumstances.

Article 8 I will strongly defend the rights of Privacy (Human Rights Law). So I first bought a VPN and why I use e -mails from outside England. I follow the law and I have a record record, then why should I and all other British citizens always be treated as suspicious? Linos, who first, under Blair and is now under Starmer, seems to always want to follow everyone, and this is none of them.

Ladycrumssall

Trust Problem

If they are used only to reduce the crime and prevent fraud, I have no problem with them. However, they can be used easily to monitor movements or monitor behaviors. And data can be sold to commercial interests. Obviously, now there is a trust problem between citizens and the government, and many of them will not be satisfied with the identity cards for the reasons listed.

Musil

Raising difficulties

Standard ID cards make it easier. At the moment, everyone wants something different – usually two formats each with different lists and requirements. Very difficulty.

Ajames

Digital Identity is a tool for control

Digital identity is a solution in search of a problem. Countries with this are China, Vietnam and North Korea. The reason for being digital rather than physical is that everything will be linked – your bank account, your medical records, your ability to travel, what you cannot buy and get.

It depends on your “social credit score” in China. They want to introduce you to control you. Your freedom to make a choice is the “problem” they want to solve.

Garyglas

ID cards help the elderly

My old mother, weak and linked to the bed, neither a driver’s license nor a passport. There is no legal ‘photo identity’ when it is necessary to consult a legal expert who requires identity. A identity card is ideal.

Msruthless

Dystopic

NI numbers are given at birth. The proposed thing is a kind of ‘document’ that everyone needs to ask everyone they demand by Gestapo’s famous “articles”. The truth is that we live in a much more dystopic country than Orwell in 1984. He hadn’t imagined such small two -way TVs that all citizens could have been forced to carry with them. The weakness of Big Brother’s technology was that he could watch only a few people at a time. Today’s artificial intelligence means that everyone’s activities can be monitored continuously. The modern dictator does not need identity cards.

Lordnelson3

Who can say that the state will not go?

Freedom lies in the inefficiency of the state and bureaucrats. Of course, if the state is largely helpful, identity cards are not a serious problem, but if the state is determined, identity cards pose a serious threat to civil rights, so that only state instruments will be more efficient. Who can say that the state will not go? We can now see an example abroad. Do you trust the farage?

seed

Retrograd Step

I am strongly against the idea of ​​introducing digital identity cards for everyone in the United Kingdom. In my opinion, this will be a retrograde step and a major violation of our civil rights. Do we really want to have a “brother” state in this country?

In addition, I doubt that widespread fraud and illegal migration will be successfully removed by such brutal measures. According to my life experiences, people usually find gaps around the obstacles put on their way.

Janetc

What will not love?

Many European countries have spent them without disturbing them for years. It provides a lot of information in various formats. What does he have won’t like it? And it is just a coincidence whether it will help the problem of migration. This should not be the reason to introduce them.

49niner

We already have enough identity

I think no. We all have a national insurance number (NIC), a NHS number. Many have a photo card license or another photo identity. I think these are more than enough to prove our identity.

Disgusting

Identity fraud or illegal migration will not stop

Most of the fraud involves persuading people to transfer money to others, and it is not really possible to see how any identity system can change it. It is really difficult to see how such a system can reduce the “illegal” migration. People who work without controlling legal status will undoubtedly continue to do so.

Yorkshireman

Handmaid’s fairy tale trick

The government wants digital ID cards – they can update at any time without even telling you. And of course everything would have a card: a separate driver’s license or a senior citizen does not need to pass bus. Everything is fine until the government decides to cancel the rights of a group that a Handmaid a fairy tale trick and does not like. It can do this in the touch of a keyboard in Whitehall. It can change your gender or remove your NHS number or cancel your vote or your driver’s license. No thank you.

Rachaelp

Physical hold, not digital

As long as I have a physical card (like my driver), I am happy to have an identification card because my phone was very old, I could not have an electronic version on it. Some can update my phone, but there is no need to change it because it is not broken and I can use it to search.

FI1964

Provides a written constitution protection

Britain should only prepare a written constitution that can be changed after a general election on the subject, but provided that there are two -thirds majority to change it. Protect the obligations and rights of the state and the people in the Constitution. In this way, the rights of people will be protected and the presence of an identity card cannot threaten these rights.

True European

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