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Deja Vu: UK's Science and Technology Committee suggests that everyone is made to have a unique ID number

10th July 2019

In July 2019, the UK House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee published a report on Digital Government. Lying not so subtlely amongst it's recommendations is this: "The Government should facilitate a national debate on single unique identifiers for citizens to use for accessing public services along with the right of the citizen to know exactly what the Government is doing with their data." It's been pointed out that this is basically some of the worst features of an ID card without…