Join the Campaign: Say No To Digital IDs

The government are at risk of creating a digital surveillance infrastructure that will change everyone’s daily lives. Their proposals for digital ID cards could easily expand, enabling a surveillance state where we constantly have to prove who we are as we go about our daily lives.

ORG is going to be fighting up and down the country to make sure Digital IDs are not introduced: Be part of this fight by signing up here! You will receive updates on the next steps in our campaign to Say No to Digital IDs.

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What is happening?

The Government is proposing that everyone in the UK should have mandatory Digital ID cards to prove their right to work.  

Here's why we need to push back hard on this idea:

  • Today it's a mandatory ID card to prove you have the right to work but in the future you might have to use it to access the NHS, to rent or buy a home, or to access benefits. These schemes ALWAYS expand. Once the infrastructure is in place, it's easy to  sleepwalk into surveillance state where we constantly have to prove who we are just to go about our daily lives.
  • It will be a bureacratic nightmare. ORG has documented the failings of eVisas (read our report) and the serious harms that have resulted from Home Office errors, system glitches and Internet outages.
  • A centralised database could be shared across government departments and the police, and fed into AI systems that effectively create an authoritarian pre-crime state.
  • Digital ID cards can be used by abusers who want to control. For example, abusers will be able to prevent someone from getting a job by denying them access to their digital ID.
  • It's misleading and wrong to say that Digital ID cards will deter people from coming to the UK in small boats. The government is wasting taxpayers' money on a scheme that won't have the impact they say it will.

Stand up for your rights, and join ORG's campaign to Say No to Digital IDs.

 

 

 

 

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