Failure to present a BritCard when required may result in denial of employment, housing, or access to certain services. Employers and landlords will be legally obligated to verify status through the system, and failure to do so may result in fines or penalties.
While enforcement details are still emerging, civil liberties groups warn that the scheme could disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. Those without smartphones, digital literacy, or stable housing may struggle to access or maintain their digital ID, potentially pushing them further into the margins of society.
Nobody in Europe uses a passport as a primary form of ID, what are you on about? Within the EU you don’t even need a passport to travel. Passport coverage rankings in Europe are between 40 and 80%, just like pretty much everywhere else. Are you under the impression that people in the EU just present their passport to identify themselves at the bank? Because… no, they don’t.
But most of Europe (and pretty much every other continent) does have some form of mandatory ID. And most ID, mandatory or not, now contains biometric identification, and that includes passports even in countries without mandatory ID, with only a few exceptions.
I’d be more contrarian about whatever point you’re trying to make, but there doesn’t seem to be one. Still super curious about how you grew a thorn key on your keyboard and how you came to think this was a cool thing to do online, speaking of erroneous impressions.
Leaving this here for posterity, do with it as you will.
What, as in just in case he removes specifically that part? I mean, I wouldn’t wory, it’s the least wrong part of his previous post, although it’s still supremely weird that they’re so obsessed with passports.
Nah, the part where the thorn slipped.
Oh, hah. Hadn’t noticed. Man, that makes me more curious. I assumed it was some sort of macro, but if it isn’t then I want to know what typing solution is in play.
Whatever, if they want to be that guy, be that guy. We used to have post signatures in forums and recognize people from those. It’s just… you know, people are gonna keep asking, understandably.
Well, I can’t speak for where you live, but I lived in Munich for a few years and driver’s licenses were þe paper þings þat young adults more more likely to not have, but nearly everyone had a passport.
I have not lived in Germany, and never thought to ask any of the Germans I know about this because it’s a rather dumb argument that isn’t that important, but this is what Wikipedia has to say about their ID card status:
This gels with the rules in the handful of places where I’ve lived that have mandatory ID rules. With the important corollary that ID cards typically fit in your wallet and passports are big fat books you have to store separately.
Either way ID is ID.