If I needed any proof the advert on this forum us showing a load of hats from the very company I looked at earlier today. They're everywhere... Watching you!! I am more than a number!!!
Actually, I am probably just that...a number to these computer systems.
Just don't mention CCTV!!! We're the country with highest number per capita of CCTV. Even more than the worst dictatorships and least free countries. Don't that just make you well up in pride???!!!!!
Ordering anything online involves security checks and an authorisation code from the bank to OK payment. Fair enough except that it no longer happens online but via smart phone.
My mobile is not smart because I only need it for emergencies so, in order to but 15€ worth of seeds I had to go into OH's fancier mobile except it's all Greek to me and he had left it with some virtual sailing competition app active. Had to get Possum to come and speak "Greek" and do the necessary. I really don't need or want the faff and expense of a fancier new phone for me. Much muttering.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Wasn't your hubby self employed, @Hostafan1? Unless he threw everything away connected with his tax returns - as @Lizzie27 says, any letter telling him it was time to submit a tax return, or giving him a tax code, will have his NI number on.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Had an e-mail from my bank recently saying they are increasing security and all transactions using t'interweb will have to be authenticated by inputting a code they will send to you. My wife doesn't use any form of internet or telephone banking so I asked how they will provide a code to her. Apparently that's not their problem!
If she doesn't use internet banking she doesn't need a code does she?
Unfortunately she will. Any transaction done on-line will generate a code from the bank as they start processing the payment. That code will be sent to the registered phone, which in this case doesn't exist, and has to be entered before payment is finalised.
Wait until you are arrested and fined for failing to produce your ID card on demand and see how you feel about it then. Or perhaps it will get more than a bit annoying that every jobsworth in the country decides that they need to see your ID before they will do their job despite them having no need or right to make such demands. ID cards are no panacea despite all the grand claims made for them.
The card doesn't need to have anything more than name, date of birth, NI and NHS numbers and photo. It's simply an easy way of identifying a person and ensuring they have entitlement to access services.
Sophisticated ID cards now have microchips containing loads of info, not just an ID no.
Sophisticated driver's license cards now show your penalty points, or not.
We are trackable by our mobile phones, car GPS system, purchasing habits thru loyalty cards, credit cards and bank cards and every time we go online we leave a trace that some system or other will capture, collate and exploit.
There is nowhere t hide unless you go off grid completely so, on the whole, I'd rather have an intelligent ID card system that facilitates access to whatever I may need in terms of state or medical support and doesn't leave me up sh1t creek like so many people in the UK trying to access help from under-trained public servants with inadequate systems and an unhelpful attitude.
I'm broadly in favour of ID cards, but they won't stop people being left "up sh1t creek like so many people in the UK trying to access help from
under-trained public servants with inadequate systems and an unhelpful
attitude." Systems still have human interaction at some point.
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Actually, I am probably just that...a number to these computer systems.
Just don't mention CCTV!!! We're the country with highest number per capita of CCTV. Even more than the worst dictatorships and least free countries. Don't that just make you well up in pride???!!!!!
My mobile is not smart because I only need it for emergencies so, in order to but 15€ worth of seeds I had to go into OH's fancier mobile except it's all Greek to me and he had left it with some virtual sailing competition app active. Had to get Possum to come and speak "Greek" and do the necessary. I really don't need or want the faff and expense of a fancier new phone for me. Much muttering.
It's not on the script, she can't say anything.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Unfortunately she will. Any transaction done on-line will generate a code from the bank as they start processing the payment. That code will be sent to the registered phone, which in this case doesn't exist, and has to be entered before payment is finalised.
The card doesn't need to have anything more than name, date of birth, NI and NHS numbers and photo. It's simply an easy way of identifying a person and ensuring they have entitlement to access services.
I'm broadly in favour of ID cards, but they won't stop people being left "up sh1t creek like so many people in the UK trying to access help from under-trained public servants with inadequate systems and an unhelpful attitude." Systems still have human interaction at some point.