On top of the idiocy of this, every SINGLE contractor can, and likely will, sue the government for breach of contract and win. Likely for more than the original connect was for. As has been the case for most other stop work orders.
This is a massive and avoidable expense to taxpayers with zero to show for it.
Sorry Texas and Florida...you shouldn't have been hanging out with California, NY, and Pennsylvania.
Don't know, never used it.
Ahh, so not apricot brandy... Oh well.
Enjoy the sauna!
I don't disagree with you. There are trade offs is the thing. I'm not getting a digital ID until I'm forced, but many people are fine with it.
The other commenter from Ukraine explained it well, and to add, the Diia app they use is open source. Other countries can use it if they pay a one time "licensing fee" that is basically a donation with the from line "we're not shitbags."
According to people super into digital IDs: In terms of trade offs, especially for Americans, interoperability means unifying state and Federal systems so that you can renew your driver's license, register a car you just bought, file your taxes, and renew your passport online in the same portal. You would rarely set foot in a government office ever again. Your ID hash can be used online and IRL to validate only a part of you identification, like age, so a bouncer at a club can't take a photo of a young woman's ID and stalk her later. So there are some added privacy benefits...in theory.
Obviously, there are the same downsides to any consolidation of digital anything. A stolen phone, even a dead battery, means you have no identity anymore. Data leaks are inevitable. This likely opens the door for far less privacy online when LinkedIn or Reddit starts asking for an age or name check. But plenty of people are oblivious to that anyway. Andb the same argument was probably made in the 1950s and 1960s about paper ID cards. So once there's utility and pressire applied to having a digital ID, adoption will follow.
France?
If this was Balkan, it would have been espresso.
User name checks out.
Hey now, I've been paranoid for years. Don't call me a newborn.
Qute browser
Eric the star, Pete the fish...yep, that's it.
Sorry, my brain wrote it phonetically in gringospeak.
His name is Lemmy...Lemmy? Do we say Lemmy like last name and first name? Or just once, like Madonna?