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Some people don't realise that choosing to share information with a company is not the same as being required to hand it to the state.
They are not the same thing.
Facebook can't arrest you.
Your bank can't take your children away.
Your phone company can't stop you earning a living.
Governments can do all those things - and more.
People also have short memories.
It is only a few years since Together was founded in 2021 to oppose so-called "vaccine passports" - a form of government-controlled Digital ID used to control access to parts of society.
At the time, plenty of people told us: "You'll never get rid of vaccine passports now."
But we did.
It was a glimpse of a future we never want to see again.
Now we face a potentially similar threat from the Government's proposed Digital ID scheme.
And we've already forced one climbdown. The policy started out as compulsory. Now it is described as optional.
That shows public pressure matters.
But "optional" is not enough. This dangerous, undemocratic scheme now needs to be scrapped before it can get established, with the high chance this or a future Government attempt to make it compulsory at some point down the line.
That's why we're asking you to take the Pledge and send it to Andy Burnham, at a time when his team may be weighing up which policies are worth pursuing - or dropping.
The link is in the comments.
If you don't want the Government being able to tell you "Access Denied," please be an action taker and join us.
Take the Pledge. Post it. Scrap Digital ID.
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