@the_tpa@TheIFS who are really ill and have cobtributed their whole life and will now not receive their state pension, get something. Seems we are the stupid ones for working and trying to be responsible our whole lives. I wouldnt wish what my husband and our family have been through....
Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience.
I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take.
They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks.
We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend.
Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border.
Criminals will work around it.
Honest citizens will pay the price.
It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to.
It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life.
One breach and your life is exposed.
Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life.
Here is the risk that ministers will not admit.
Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider:
It lies quiet for months. It rolls through the backups. On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted.
Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch.
Centralise identity and you centralise failure.
Do not fall for the pitch.
Function creep is certain. It starts as login.
It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services.
It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors.
It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target.
It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online.
It will centralise risk and outsource blame.
It will not stop fraud.
It will not stop illegal migration.
It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth.
If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay.
You do not need a national ID to do any of that.
We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason.
Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status.
Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.
@Halfords_uk 2/2 You say you have issued it, he hasn't received it, yet you wash your hands of it and now he has to try and figure out where you sent it and why he hasn't received it? This is in excess of £300, caused by your issues. Unacceptable!
@Halfords_uk 1/2 My son ordered 2 tyres for mobile fitting. There was sn issue with your systems on the day (around 18th June) and the order wasn't placed but funds taken. He was advised tk place a second order and a refund would be issued.
@phillamorgan@BBCNews Watched in disbelief as he said how dangerous a few cm of snow were, so no play allowed in the playground & how treacherous the walk to school would be because of the (very slight) hill. Followed by a report of proper snow in the US, which made it look even more ridiculous 🙄
@quantumhealer1@1984IsOnRoute@Jenny_1884 Tried it. Still get spammed with it. Just a different message. First it was get a smart meter, look at all these benefits. Now it's get a smart meter your is obsolete. Well...it's still working, so why should I worry. 😉
@RAC_Business my husband had cover with you last year. He is now seriously ill, and cannot call or email you to inform you he does not require renewal. Your collections are chasing him for payment. Who can I contact to get this resolved?
@DerbyCC No black bin collection last week for roads in Heatherton, i.e. Tawny Way. No collection since. Are you coming to collect the overflowing bins or leaving us for 4 weeks without a collection? Also missed 2 collection in last month's for blue / brown bin. Not good service
If anyone out there is interested in knowing how our #NHS (supposed envy of the world), treats recently diagnosed and rapidly deteriorating #MND patients let me know. I wonder what our newly elected #LabourParty are willing to fo about it.
@DerbyCC bins missed in Heatherton village on Tuesday, not collected today either. Brown / Blue bin collections missed recently too. I've lived in the same house for 25+ years & more missed bins in the first half of this year than in any other year. Why? When will you collect?
@UKsyfyfan @skippyday70@Lord_Sugar Tried it, it didn't seamlessly pull across to the other side it just broke. But thanks for sharing an easier way to break the lid off 🤣😂
@bhx_official Got there 3 hours before my flight yesterday due to all the publicity about long queues. Got through security in 3 minutes. No queue at all. So it's a thumbs up from me 👍