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CW: UK politics; petition against introducing digital ID cards
Hey folks :FediverseSymbol:
In case you haven't already seen, the petition on the petition.parliament.uk against the introduction of compulsory digital ID cards has reached ~1.7 million signatures at the time of us writing this post ✊
Do not introduce Digital ID cards
If you're a British citizen or UK resident, please kindly do consider signing this if you haven't already done so :PleadingFaceWithRedHearts:
This isn't some "good faith" effort by the government: it's patently being done for nefarious reasons, including:
- Infringing upon the human rights of migrants (both documented and undocumented) and asylum seekers, and making their lives even more difficult.
- Further eroding the rights of trans+ people within the UK by embedding either a binary gender marker (urgh!) or "sex" (urgh!) assigned at birth flag on there.
- Giving the state greater surveillance abilities and powers of the lives of everyday citizens, particularly the poor, the marginalised, and any dissenters.
If nothing else, the recent £1.5 billion GBP "strategic partnership" that the UK government has formed with US company Palantir should raise serious alarm bells over data privacy, data security, and data protection :PleadingFace:
#KeirStarmer #DigitalIDCards #DigitalID #Politics #UKPol #UKPolitics #privacy #DataProtection #Palantir #UK #UKGovernment #MigrantRights #MigrantRightsAreHumanRights #MigrantsRightsAreWorkersRights #WorkersRights #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #trans #transgender #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #FuckKeirStarmer #FuckAI #FuckDigitalID
Update 2025-09-29: The petition is now past 2.4 million signatures, and still rising.