The fuller context of the Digital ID excrescence can be seen in this below, from Stark Naked Brief on X ... core reason why the whole mess must be implacably opposed.
I understand that Euan Blair, son of the Devil, has a stake in the company which would be used if the ID card programme goes ahead. Nothing like keeping it in the family, if true. Penseivat
I remember being an I.T. Contractor back in the Nineties, when Blair's Labour government brought in the IR35 tax rules. Which decimated the contracting industry overnight. Of course it affected the independent contractors working in niches like myself, but left the big corporate I.T. corporations unaffected. The corporates, who had massive overheads, massive intertia and very rarely delivered viable projects on time and on budget. 30 years later the big corporates have got bigger and deliver less and interestingly involve members of the Blair family. Knowing what I know, I have absolutely no confidence in the ability of the corporates to build a safe and stable platform on the scale required for a national identity system, let alone keep it secure from the millions of daily probes from foreign state sponsored hackers. We can't even keep Ministry of Defence information safe, so what chance have we keeping lower level security information safe? And what are the chances of blackmail when foreign state actors have access to all your information all in one place? It's like the government are handing our enemies a golden opportunity.
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I understand that Euan Blair, son of the Devil, has a stake in the company which would be used if the ID card programme goes ahead. Nothing like keeping it in the family, if true.
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The slimy little ratbag!
DeleteI remember being an I.T. Contractor back in the Nineties, when Blair's Labour government brought in the IR35 tax rules. Which decimated the contracting industry overnight. Of course it affected the independent contractors working in niches like myself, but left the big corporate I.T. corporations unaffected. The corporates, who had massive overheads, massive intertia and very rarely delivered viable projects on time and on budget. 30 years later the big corporates have got bigger and deliver less and interestingly involve members of the Blair family. Knowing what I know, I have absolutely no confidence in the ability of the corporates to build a safe and stable platform on the scale required for a national identity system, let alone keep it secure from the millions of daily probes from foreign state sponsored hackers. We can't even keep Ministry of Defence information safe, so what chance have we keeping lower level security information safe? And what are the chances of blackmail when foreign state actors have access to all your information all in one place? It's like the government are handing our enemies a golden opportunity.
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