A Step Closer To Digital IDs – Online ID Document Checks To Expand in UK; plus facial recognition surveillance on the rise

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Is the UK taking a sideways step or a step closer to digital ID by allowing more checks to be done with uploaded identity documents? Changes to the Identity Trust Framework promise private-sector provision for faster, more secure checks of people’s right to rent, work and apply for background checks. Among ID document and selfie biometric authentication providers, the UK’s Yoti is working to bring digital ID to Open Banking, Blinking has its sights set on European expansion, and iDenfy has added a new capability.

UK to launch certification for private-sector identity checking technology

Employers and landlords in the UK will be able to use certified private-sector identity document verification technology (IDVT) to check the credentials of potential renters and workers to determine their rights, according to a policy paper from the Home Office, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and the background checking department, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).

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Again - how can this be used for evil – Revelation 13:17 – No Man Might Buy or Sell

Biometric Update Website – Its Headlines Should Be On Our Radar. Like this headline – Greece to introduce full mobile version of digital ID, driving licenses

Another tech-related event:

London is buying heaps of facial recognition technology.

September 2021 - The UK’s biggest police force is set to significantly expand its facial recognition capabilities before the end of this year. New technology will enable London’s Metropolitan Police to process historic images from CCTV feeds, social media and other sources in a bid to track down suspects. But critics warn the technology has “eye-watering possibilities for abuse” and may entrench discriminatory policing.

In a little-publicised decision made at the end of August, the Mayor of London’s office approved a proposal allowing the Met to boost its surveillance technology. The proposal says that in the coming months the Met will start using Retrospective Facial Recognition (RFR), as part of a £3 million, four-year deal with Japanese tech firm NEC Corporation.

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• Spanish port pilots 5G-enabled facial recognition surveillance

• UK to use Facial Recognition for Govt Services

• The border with Spain as we know it today will disappear, with immigration checks replaced by technology, including facial recognition cameras to monitor and control those crossing. – Spain Gloats It Has Been Given Control of Gibraltar’s Borders as Part of Brexit Deal - #4 by Cloudcity

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Australian Government uses data breaches to push Digital Identity

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Goodbye Privacy: Supermarkets Secretly Implementing Digital ID Software that Stores Your Biometrics

Major Supermarket chains, including Sainsbury's, Tesco, Morrisons and even the Co-op are installing systems that capture and store your biometric data, including facial scans and gate analysis. The systems are being trialled in a number of stores across the country with most shoppers unaware they are being targeted.

The trials were organized at various points during 2022 in a number of cities in England. More.

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London Food Bank Rolling Out Face Biometrics App for Store Purchases - Activist Post

A London food bank is expanding its use of face biometrics to facilitate the distribution of food to its customers through local shops.

Getting everyone used to "showing their papers/identity" in order to get food. :worried:

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While you were watching Israel…

by tts-admin | Oct 16, 2023 | 6 comments

Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian.co.uk Oct 14, 2023

We need a new approach to digital identity”, so say the authors of an “Agenda Article” for the World Economic Forum, published on the 28th of September.

Digital ID has been in the news a lot lately, obscured for the past week in the mist of the Israel-Hamas situation.

Last month the United Nation Developments Programme published its legal guidelines for digital IDs as well as “mobilizing” global leadership with a $400mn fund to “empower” digital identity programmes in over 100 countries.

Various nations are already making steps in that direction. Multiple US states are either already issuing digital IDs or planning to in the near future, as are Kenya, Somalia, Bhutan and Singapore. Austria’s system is going online in December.

Just last week, Forbes Australia published it’s guide to what “Australians need to know” about digital IDs, and 9News reported that they could be in place as soon as next year.

Just two days ago, the Journal of Australian Law Society predicted the same thing.

Meanwhile, also in Australia, the world’s 21st largest bank is changing its terms and conditions to allow it to “de-bank” customers.

The National Australian Bank’s “revised” terms and conditions go into force on November 1st and include, in clause 11: “NAB may close your account at any time at its discretion”.

The reasons NAB would consider enforcing clause 11 make for interesting reading [emphasis added]:

NAB can take a range of things into account when exercising its rights and discretions. These can include:
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(e) NAB’s public statements, including those relating to protecting vulnerable persons, the environment or sustainability;
(f) community expectations and any impact on NAB’s reputation;

So – as of November 1st – NAB reserves the right to de-bank you if you get cancelled, or say something they don’t approve of about climate change or “vulnerable people”.

In the UK, just two days ago, it was reported the government is planning to upload every passport photo in their records to a facial recognition database. Big Brother Watch reports:

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