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Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers

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525 points alex77456 | 2 comments | 26 Sep 25 02:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source
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mrob ◴[26 Sep 25 06:38 UTC] No.45383451[source]▶
It's incredibly misleading to call a phone app a "card". This is much worse than it sounds. Am I going to be forced to buy a smartphone? Am I going to be forced to run non-Free software? Am I going to be forced to enter into a restrictive contract with a foreign corporation?
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octo888 ◴[26 Sep 25 06:53 UTC] No.45383546[source]▶
Hah this is the UK. No, it'll be optional to begin with to make people like you asking important questions seem like a whacko. Then once they use propaganda to make people opt into it, and it reaches mass adoption, then it'll quietly be made mandatory - or extremely annoying not to have it
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1. LinAGKar ◴[26 Sep 25 14:54 UTC] No.45387218[source]▶
No, it will be mandatory right from the start, and employers will be required to check it

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/digital-id-ca...

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2. octo888 ◴[26 Sep 25 21:02 UTC] No.45390989[source]▶
Are you suggesting they will draft the law in such a way that in order not to be fired people must download this thing onto a smartphone and show it to their employer, post-haste? Your link does not support any evidence of that (the line " will be mandatory for every worker in the UK" links to just another one of their own articles, which also does not support it). I imagine it'll be phased in for new employment.

No, it won't be mandatory in all situations all at once, for every facet of life (I did not specify employment).