Submitted on Friday 3rd February 2023
Rejected on Tuesday 7th February 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Extend Consultation Date for the Digital Identity Verifier, Gov.UK ONE LOGIN
The proposal to create a consolidated database containing the information currently held by 18 government agencies (allowing them plus 4 more unlimited access) is not only profoundly risky, but severely infringes personal freedoms. Making identification easier does not justify attendant risks.
Extend the consultation period indefinitely and provide a well-publicised platform for debate and commentary on this proposal and how it will impact on fundamental civic freedoms. Consider at very least an e-referendum. What is here proposed is potentially as impactful as the Magna Carta. Why the express provision to allow database-storage outside the UK? Where is the guarantee that processing will be handled exclusively within government? Centralising so much personal data is not justifiable.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We understand that you are concerned about the proposals set out in the Government's consultation on draft legislation to support identity verification, but we're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.
Your petition calls for the consultation to be extended "indefinitely", but consultations always have a closing date, and it's not clear how a consultation that never closed would work.
Your petition also refers to an "e-referendum", but it's not clear if you want implementation of the Government's proposals to have to be approved in a referendum, or just for the Government to consider holding a referendum.
We also couldn't publish a petition that made any unsubstantiated claims about the content or effect of the Government's proposals.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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