03-30-2021, 08:12 AM
(03-30-2021, 08:07 AM)baggy1 Wrote: Playing devil's advocate here, what would be the issues with digital id? We all manage our finances online now; we can all have our location tracked through phones, watches etc; your NHS record can be managed online, appointments, history, repeat prescriptions etc; we carry photo ID in the form of a driving licence and we have our foreign travel monitored through digital passports - why is there such a push against digital id?
Not everyone has a mobile phone, not everyone has a passport, and not everyone has a driving licence and for all of the other things you mention there are alternative methods, so we actually choose to do them.
There is a difference between choice and compulsion