• Deyis@beehaw.org
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    What’s infuriating about this is there already exists forms of ID to verify your right to work in the UK and people employing people without the documentation to prove their right to work in the UK don’t give a shit whether they have the correct documentation.

    This is a complete waste of time and money which can be better spent elsewhere.

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      Maybe the pertinent question is “Where is the money being spent now? Who is supplying the platform?”.

      Follow the money?

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      Nah this goes way back, this is home grown New Labor security state ideas. Blair tried doing it 15 years ago and has been banging on about it from the side lines since then.

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      Many countries both freer, more egalitarian and easier to do business in has a system like this.

      It doesn’t HAVE to be an evil thing. But it’s the UK so it most likely will be something something money lobbyism cronyism duck house security leak bullshit.

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    What about people who can’t afford to have a mobile phone? Or a place to keep it charged? I.e. homeless

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        In Germany, this is done via NFC on the chip card, using your phone. Works fine and I get to control when ID is used.

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          Yeah, the poster above said “no wireless capability” though. NFC is wireless.

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            And even without that, I prefer a single short range wireless connectivity to a multiband device with very high processing power and multiple sensors and various attack vectors having all my effects consolidated in it.

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              Agreed. A passive RFID chip, that require an external signal to power itself, is better than a mobile app.

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      A lot of things.

      But it could also go right, tbh - lots and lots of civilised countries have a system like this (looking at you Nordic nations) and it’s extremely helpful and bringing government services online in a safe and reliable manner.

      Of course this is the UK, so this will probably end up as another Government Gateway boondoggle.

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      The “small boats” will be used this time. Anything that can be seen to cater to the Tommy Robinson crowd is likely to be accepted by a large majority unfortunately.