kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@Shitlord@dobbs.town
Coast guard keeps their motor boat there to rescue people who periodically get caught on the island by high tide 😃

Rhossili cliffs as always beautiful, and by randomly browsing OpenStreetMaps I actually discovered there are caves just around the corner! 🦇

@kmic

Wow I thought Putin had exclusive rights to Segal 😂

You can feel confidence and widespread national support for Lukashenka in #Belarus 🤦‍♂️

@kawaiipunk

Well, at the end of the day we ended up with more authoritarian and more personal data in private companies 😀
@vfrmedia

@vfrmedia

Precisely, and the amount of magic and effort the gov programmers need to put into cross-matching these is just incredible. Because each agency obviously keep them in different format, sematics etc. Tons of honest, very creative... and completely unnecessary work. So each time you get a cryptic error when applying for something on gov.uk, say thanks to those whose lobbying won in 2011

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/identity-cards-and-new-identity-and-passport-service-suppliers#cancellation-of-the-national-identity-register

@kawaiipunk

@kawaiipunk What is even more dumber, you need to reveal these not only to gov agencies, but to every fucking obscure rental company who will keep it God knows where and sell it to God knows who.

And then you have private companies like Experian who aggregate all these sensitive details about everyone, and charge others - including government - for matches across their database.

All that because "I'm not a number" and we won't let gov keep such database on their own 🤦‍♂️

@kawaiipunk Obviously, gov agencies and commercial enterprises still need to uniquely identify citizens.

But because there's no single unique citizen id, everyone needs to submit the whole ridiculous set of details which you have just enumerated, and more, for the organisation to be able to match it through their records.

So instead of name, surname, national id number you need to reveal name, surname plus tons of sensitive data to every agency. Because, you guess it, "I'm not a number..." 😂

@kawaiipunk

That is an episode of a never ending saga titled "UK national id" 😂 Around 15 years ago there was a debate to create a single country-wide identification document, as almost every country in Europe now has.

But it was widely protested and blocked because "I'm not a number, I'm a free man".

As result there's no single citizen identification database, number etc in the UK. Numbers like NINo, driver license etc are limited in scope to the agencies who use them.

Swansea - Abertawe

@1010101

Да, два часа на пароме. Я туда ездил другу, только поэтому знаю 😃 Вообще очень хорошая поездка, счастливого пути! 🏍️