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Here's a fun #NINO - the UK's National Insurance Number - [Thread] to start the weekend 👇

Maybe I should do an #NHSnumber one sometime? It's a fascinating story, which (ironically) starts with these...
[With thanks to @guy_herbert, @TomSamaki, @PrivacyMatters & others for encouragement!]

Before I start a geeky 'deep dive' on the #NHSnumber, to provide some (personal/professional) context that will hopefully become apparent, I'll just drop these two images here:
So, to begin.

After the Second World War, in a time when we started to think (again) what a #civilised society would be, and when our leaders tried to agree #principles like #UDHR that might prevent the recurrence of genocide, and support #dignity and #HumanRights for all...
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Erm. Sounds like @thetimes has been talking more to Tony than Dom. The 'proposals' (actually a consultation response) are an incoherent mess.

@DCMS never once mentions GP registration - for which proof of #ID is not required; #NHSnumbers work fine...
thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/d… Image
...and while eliminating a bunch of "#PapersPlease" checks might be welcome, it won't if replaced with #GovernmentID checks; digital signatures have existed for years.

Successive Gov'ts have abjectly failed on #AgeVerification, despite what's available:

disruptiveproactivity.com/2017/08/age-ve…
And, if this *is* a Cummings 'master plan' then he's literally fallen at the first #OODA step:

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