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Now I'm scared

TheCatWoman

Starmer has announced that he's introducing digital ID cards and as yet theres no alterantive for those of us with no smart phones, althought "they're going to consult" on it, who with or how we don't know. But quite frankly this news has me really scared, terriied, I'm shaking and may have to take some anti-anxiety meds. 

I can see a situation where my Mum, me and a few of our neighbours are going to be illegal in our own country and unable to access services.

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  • So we will have to have existing ID to get our digital or not ID, well that would still exclude my Mum and I dont' have enough physical photo ID either, nor does my son according to one jobsworth who refused to accect his photgrapic HMRC warrant card as suitable ID. 

    How will young people who don't drive and don't have a passport be able to get one?

    According to the government only 7% of people don't have smart phones, I wonder how many of the other 93% are like the person mentioned below who can make calls and texts and nothing else.

    It is said that there will be all sorts of features built in to make it easy for those with cognitive and other difficulties, I read through them and thought, I still don't think I'd be able to use them, even voice control, what about accents and stuff I think a lot of voice recognition tech still has problems with voice recognition. What about elderly people with croaky voices or those who suffer from a speech impediment?

    Switzerland has just had a national referendum on digital ID and it passed by about .8%, 50.4% in favour and 49.6%% against and that was for a voluntary system, not a compulsory one such as our government is proposing. I think we should have a referedum too, and see just how popular the idea really is. Of course the shadow of brexit hangs over any referendum now, but thats not a good reason not to have one. The Brexit referendum was so poorly thought out and the government didn't contemplate losing, hense the mess we've found ourselves in. If we did have a referendum and the people said a resounding No, I wonder how long it would be before they were enforced on us anyway?

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  • So we will have to have existing ID to get our digital or not ID, well that would still exclude my Mum and I dont' have enough physical photo ID either, nor does my son according to one jobsworth who refused to accect his photgrapic HMRC warrant card as suitable ID. 

    How will young people who don't drive and don't have a passport be able to get one?

    According to the government only 7% of people don't have smart phones, I wonder how many of the other 93% are like the person mentioned below who can make calls and texts and nothing else.

    It is said that there will be all sorts of features built in to make it easy for those with cognitive and other difficulties, I read through them and thought, I still don't think I'd be able to use them, even voice control, what about accents and stuff I think a lot of voice recognition tech still has problems with voice recognition. What about elderly people with croaky voices or those who suffer from a speech impediment?

    Switzerland has just had a national referendum on digital ID and it passed by about .8%, 50.4% in favour and 49.6%% against and that was for a voluntary system, not a compulsory one such as our government is proposing. I think we should have a referedum too, and see just how popular the idea really is. Of course the shadow of brexit hangs over any referendum now, but thats not a good reason not to have one. The Brexit referendum was so poorly thought out and the government didn't contemplate losing, hense the mess we've found ourselves in. If we did have a referendum and the people said a resounding No, I wonder how long it would be before they were enforced on us anyway?

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