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Extend Consultation Date for the Digital Identity Verifier, Gov.UK ONE LOGIN
Rejected
11 signatures
What the petition asks
The proposal to create a consolidated database containing the information currently held by 18 government agencies (allowing them plus 4 more unlimited access) is not only profoundly risky, but severely infringes personal freedoms. Making identification easier does not justify attendant risks.
Extend the consultation period indefinitely and provide a well-publicised platform for debate and commentary on this proposal and how it will impact on fundamental civic freedoms. Consider at very least an e-referendum. What is here proposed is potentially as impactful as the Magna Carta. Why the express provision to allow database-storage outside the UK? Where is the guarantee that processing will be handled exclusively within government? Centralising so much personal data is not justifiable.
Why it was rejected
It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We understand that you are concerned about the proposals set out in the Government's consultation on draft legislation to support identity verification, but we're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.
Your petition calls for the consultation to be extended "indefinitely", but consultations always have a closing date, and it's not clear how a consultation that never closed would work.
Your petition also refers to an "e-referendum", but it's not clear if you want implementation of the Government's proposals to have to be approved in a referendum, or just for the Government to consider holding a referendum.
We also couldn't publish a petition that made any unsubstantiated claims about the content or effect of the Government's proposals.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
We understand that you are concerned about the proposals set out in the Government's consultation on draft legislation to support identity verification, but we're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.
Your petition calls for the consultation to be extended "indefinitely", but consultations always have a closing date, and it's not clear how a consultation that never closed would work.
Your petition also refers to an "e-referendum", but it's not clear if you want implementation of the Government's proposals to have to be approved in a referendum, or just for the Government to consider holding a referendum.
We also couldn't publish a petition that made any unsubstantiated claims about the content or effect of the Government's proposals.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
Timeline
| 3 Feb 2023 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 7 Feb 2023 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
11
Status
Rejected
Rejected
7 Feb 2023
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.