Under 16s Social Media "Ban" = Digital ID By the Back Door

The British public has just rejected compulsory digital ID proposals, this threatens to impose it through the back door.

Mission creep to cover the entire internet – not only social media – seems inevitable.

Anonymity protects whistleblowers, vulnerable people and political dissenters alike, and this would destroy that too.

Even online safety groups don’t think banning social media for under-16s is a good idea.

They say it could cause unexpected problems: creating a false sense of security, while actually pushing kids into more dangerous, unregulated parts of the internet where it’s harder to keep them safe.

DIGITAL ID: "We don’t want our children to be cattle for digital ID"

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill creates a national digital ID for children by stealth - turning the NHS number into a compulsory lifelong ID used across government (health, schools, social care).

#NoToDigitalID

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DIGITAL ID (CHILDREN): "They're going to do it via our children" Dr Reene Hoenderkamp

The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill would bring in NHS number as a universal identifier for children risks establishing a de facto national digital ID

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UNDER 16s SOCIAL MEDIA "BAN": This is a decision for parents, not the state

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If kids are online, that is a CHOICE made by PARENTS. Families are best placed to decide what is appropriate for their children, based on maturity, circumstance and individual needs. A blanket ban replaces parental judgement with state control.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood wants AI and facial recognition ‘panopticon?!’

Respond to consultation - closes soon:

https://together.eaction.org.uk/panopticon

"Allow us to live our lives free from the overbearing state" - Montgomery Toms

Labour are pushing for surveillance across Britain, with facial recognition, digital IDs - and now the disturbing vision of an AI "panopticon"

DIGITAL ID: "David Davis points out One Login does not meet the government's own requirements to be classified as a safe and trusted identity supplier"

Yet the Govt is still pushing the public into One Login - millions of company directors effectively forced, & veterans encouraged when it clearly isn't secure - they need to stop

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FACIAL RECOGNITION: Govt wants to impose more facial recognition

This takes us further into a walking-barcode surveillance state, where British citizens are treated as suspects rather than free individuals

Respond to consultation - closes soon: https://together.eaction.org.uk/panopticon

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DIGITAL ID: "They hired friendly hackers to penetrate One Login, they found they could take control of the system without being detected"
(Andrew Orlowski)

Govt is still pushing the public into One Login - millions of company directors effectively forced, & veterans encouraged when it clearly isn't secure - they need to stop

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UNDER 16s "SOCIAL MEDIA BAN": "Childhood is a period when appropriate risks need to be taken" (Jacob Rees-Mogg)

Already, 42 children’s and online safety organisations, experts and bereaved families – including the NSPCC – have issued a joint statement saying even they do NOT support this proposal.

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DIGITAL ID: Govt needs to scrap its Digital ID scheme altogether now

Keir Starmer this undemocratic scheme is not wanted - at all Keep the pressure on #together

#NoToDigitalID

Live facial recognition treats everyone as a suspect, ends anonymity in public & has no democratic mandate.

A free society would ban it, not regulate it.

Respond by 12 Feb: tell Home Office a “panopticon” is mass surveillance, not policing by consent:
https://together.eaction.org.uk/panopticon

ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL: "In the majority of places, it has gone down a slippery slope... In Canada, you can be offered it if you’re homeless" (Dr Ros Jones)

The underhand way the Govt has tried to push this deeply flawed & dangerous Bill through is very worrying

UNDER 16s SOCIAL MEDIA "BAN": Unworkable in practice

Teenagers will inevitably find workarounds through VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) and other tools, foreign platforms and fake credentials – pushing them further beyond parental oversight

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ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL: Claire Fox slams the bill in the House of Lords 👏

DIGITAL ID: We beamed #NoToDigitalID message on to Parliament, Tower Bridge and '10 Downing Street’

They keep trying - we won’t stop

🚫 SCRAP Digital ID
✅ YES to a Digital Bill of Rights

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