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This week, once again, Tony Blair has been bleating on about ID cards. For decades now, often in the face of fierce resistance from his Tory opposition, such opposition that scrapped his national ID card scheme back in the Coalition Government. Then Home Secretary Theresa May reportedly had the hard drives storing our information gobbled up by a grinding machine in Essex. Then came the pandemic, and Blair was back arguing that vaccine passports meant it was time for such ID; then, earlier this week, he teamed up with the bloke that used to spar with him at the dispatch box, William Hague, to make the case once more.
The pair produced a paper together via Blair’s Institute for Global Change, entitled ‘A New National Purpose: Innovation Can Power the Future of Britain’. One of the flagship proposals is the idea that our smartphones should contain a designed ‘digital ID’. Arguing in an age of the on-demand economy in which you can find a date, order dinner or scroll through Twitter getting yourself wound up by bad opinions, digital ID would make life easier for everyday public services, with your passport, driving licence, tax records and qualifications all held on your phone.
The journalist Ross Clark, who we had on this channel the other week, reckons this is a step towards China’s Orwellian social credit system; he asks too if the British state has become any more capable at doing big IT projects since Blair wasted £10 billion on a scrapped plan for digitising the NHS? Let’s not forget that the NHS Covid app, Track & Trace, had tens of billions spent on it and wasn’t brilliant either.
So joining Darren Grimes to discuss is James Woudhuysen, Visiting Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at London Southbank University, a specialist in IT, Energy and Asia.
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Do not comply
Refuse, do not comply and fight back.
Digital ID will just be used to further push for more powers for government. We will just see a China like social credit system. We don’t want it, it’s a free country.
NO NO NO to Digital ID
Definitely time to stop these GIobaIist stooges.
Has anyone noticed how the media are very quiet over the FTX fraud? Me thinks they want us to forget how flawed crypto currency is.
To those who want to lace this on us: Bite my freedom loving ass!
It's all part of the plan to bring in CBDC's.
"There are too many sausages in your basket sir…. you bought steaks yesterday".
"Sorry sir, you can't buy these cakes, your sugar allowance is used up."
"…with my judgement today……You will be no longer able to use public transport for 6 months."
You can not trust the AI because of who programmed it, when you watch films like terminator this could really happen
There's a complete absence of accountability when it comes to AI. It's worse than "computer says no", if you want to query why it said no, there's literally nothing you can go look at. With an actual person you can at least ask the question. The problem here is neither Haigh nor Blair have the first clue what they're talking about. They don't know anything about this subject.
Also I read a book in the early 90's, written in the 70's, called Computer Power and Human Reason (Joseph Weizenbaum). It was a warning; seemingly a warning absolutely nobody heeded.
It's good that your now covering this – people must be warned about this sort of thing, otherwise we will end up worse than china.
I would support ID cards purely to identify who you are but all personal information and records should not be included.
Remember, not that long ago in Nazi Germany etc, people had to 'show their papers to the authorities'. Want that?
If not, resist, people, RESIST.