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==== When assessing claims about the UK identity plan, be wary of: ====
* Claims of implants / mandatory microchips — no announced plan supports this, and fact-checking has already flagged it as false.
* Presenting the system as a physical ID card, when the government insists it is digital-only (no requirement to carry a card).
* Claims that it is already law or fully operational — it is a proposal, not yet legislated or deployed.
* Sweeping statements that it permits unlimited data sharing, or that private tech companies will have free access to all citizen data — these are speculative unless backed by published architecture or legislation.
* Equating the proposed system directly with dystopian systems like China’s social credit, without making clear which safeguards or differences exist.

If you like, I can map out how many times particular false claims (implants, surveillance, “social credit,” etc.) have been shared in the last week (on X, TikTok, etc.), to give you a quantitative sense of how widespread the misinformation is. Do you want me to do that?

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