Digital Driving Licences
 

One step closer to digital ids ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkjjkjy4p8o

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It'll probably be no good for me, as I don't have all the necessary forms of ID to get a Government Gateway ID.

The NHS Wales app is unusable for me for the same reason.

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You don’t have a driving licence?

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I didn't have that problem with the England NHS app.

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I have for the past 45 years, but I don't have a passport, mobile phone contract, national ID card (?), a P60 or recent payslip, or a smartphone to make a moving video of my face (???).

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As usual, other countries manage things perfectly well.
If we were still in the EU, we would've had to have one anyway.

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Wonder how long it will be before there is a fake APP and spoof ids

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Whatever. People freely give their digital information over to corporations all the time.

Bring it on.

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Rightly (or wrongly) people tend to trust "corporations" more than they do governments.

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If you go to a Post Office, they can validate you.

https://www.postoffice.co.uk/identit...#bf-full-width

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I got my gateway account online from just my driving licence number and national insurance number.

Then again, that was a while ago now (around 2008).
My daughter did the same (in fact I created it on her behalf) - that was in 2015.

I guess they are more strict these days ?

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Douglas Adams saw this coming, too:

Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology’s greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.

- Mostly Harmless


It sounds like a good idea, and in a society with no profit motive - and, moreover, with no crackers - it might be doable. But in our society, i.e. what we laughingly call 'real life'...no. The words 'identity theft' spring readily to mind. In this immature society, we are not ready.

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Or perhaps it might be workable once quantum encryption is in place. The ultimate goal of cryptography is to create a cipher that can't be cracked even with the key. This is in fact possible in theory. A digital licence would solve a lot of problems, it's true...but ATM it would cause more than it would solve.

Few people will adopt it unless its security can be guaranteed - and given the appalling track record of governments (any government), it's no wonder we don't trust them. Certainly I don't.

And I've just had a thought: what about the non-drivers, of whom I am one? One reason I don't drive is that the roads are dangerous enough. :shocked:

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I don't carry general ID with me and would never do so. I know who I am. I have work ID and other cards but I look on them as special cases to show that I work there and have access to certain doors not to prove my identity. I don't carry my driving license.

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I still have my paper license.