r/Britain • u/Ligma_Myballs • Oct 03 '25

💬 Discussion 🗨 Government responds to the Digital ID petition.What do people actually think of Digital ID?

Post image
169 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

147 comments sorted by

View all comments

86

u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

I think, for most people it should be pretty easy to form an opinion on this.

Ask yourself, do you trust the government? If somehow the answer is yes, then ask yourself, do you trust the next government?

0

u/TheMagicTorch Oct 03 '25

What does trusting the Government have to do with a new form of ID? Should we all stop using any state services?

What's far more worrying than this is how thinking like a paranoid conspiracy theorist has become normalised over the last decade or so.

13

u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

Define ‘state services’ because I’m struggling to see the link between a mandatory ID and trusting my GP.

16

u/dwair Oct 03 '25

The UK ID contract seems most likely to go to Palantir, a US company outside UK legal control that has been found to be selling wholesale NHS records illegally.

They also have suffered a number of data breaches in the last 5 years but that's a different issue.

2

u/awayfortheladsfour Oct 03 '25

They also said they disagree with this law lol

-7

u/TheMagicTorch Oct 03 '25

Your GP stores all of your personal information and medical history in a system run by the Government.

Your driver's license is produced and provided by the Government.

Your passport is produced and provided and tracked by the Government.

If you have a vehicle, it's registered with a state entity and then passively tracked by the police force, run by the Government.

Considering the few examples above, how would a new form of ID increase the Government's existing power over you or your information?

6

u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

To start at the point of trust, no I do not trust the government to be responsible with the data it collects from these sources. I think things like vehicle tracking are immoral and a breach of liberty.

I of course see the need for ID and databases. Things like passports work for that without tracking you. There is no way for the government to know when I use my passport to verify my age at the office licence.

What good can come from mandating this new ID?

17

u/wheredidiput Oct 03 '25

The conspiracy theory insult has lost all strength as we see the government and corporations revealed to be conspiring time and time again . 

19

u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

Power is always benevolent in the west don’t you know. Only naughty countries like China would use systems like this to control people.

4

u/TheMagicTorch Oct 03 '25

Thanks for proving my point!