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So the Gov't has gone from promising a review of #VaccinePassports in February...

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-561696…

to officials saying #domestic uses are "dead" and "not going to happen" in May...

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

to the review stating they won't be #mandated in early July...
...to @BorisJohnson announcing they WILL be #mandatory for (mostly) young people from the end of September:

thetimes.co.uk/article/labour…
Meanwhile, and despite MONTHS of denials*, it turns out the Government has already spent £23.6 million on #VaccinePassports 👇 and has already cut deals that could run until 2023 at least...

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

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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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Context for this [Thread]:
wfp.org/news/gsma-and-…

And overview of @WFP #SCOPE: …ons4sdgs.globalinnovationexchange.org/innovations/sc…

Noting it is also a #biometric #IDcard:
google.com/url?q=https://…

53 out of 80 million 'potential beneficiaries' is dwarfed by the 1.253 *billion* on #Aadhaar; ~140 million...
...adults on #CNIC in Pakistan; the 110 million whose #biometrics have already been taken for the as-yet-undelivered Brazilian #IDscheme; & is (roughly) equivalent to the numbers now registered on Nigeria's #centralisedID system.

@WorldBank's dataset:
datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/identi… ...
...is a bit dated, and focused on who's NOT registered - it's everyone's "right to be officially #identified', don'tcha know - but I do the maths periodically to keep an eye on the global picture as it #metastasises.
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