Owning a cell phone is quite rare in my rural mountain community...we have no connections to receive calls. I have a phone but never use it. This idea of digital ID is the elitist dream of city office dwellers. Those banks and businesses that insist on sending security numbers by text are useless to rural people. You can't force the poor, the elderly or the digitally unserved to spend money on a cell phone that has no other use than identification. Make the nations' infrastructure universal (please don't!) before passing legislation that further invalidates citizens who don't live in the city.
I see an advantage for fighting identity theft and fraud and elimination of confusion of identity such as when people have to deal with problems arising from similar names and such.
I think that it is an advantage for authorization for all the privileges of citizenship such as voter identification, eligibility for employment, purchase and possession of firearms, obtaining travel documents such as passports.
The biggest flaw is the possibility of invading privacy. I don't think that is an impediment though. The use could be made voluntary and allowed to be anonymous. If the police stop someone and think that they are someone else, they could have to be required to identify who they are looking for and the system could just say that this is not the person you are looking for and not disclose their actual identity.
You should also be able to audit any inquiries into your identity disclosing the person making the inquiry and the reason for the inquiry with severe penalties for unlawful use.
I can actually see ways that it could increase privacy. Of course getting that kind of privacy baked into the implementation would be a struggle.
Hard NO for me! Name one governmental program that has not been corrupted and abused. We might as well just post all our private data on social media…the government is not to be trusted!
We basically already have most of our private data posted on the internet. Banking and investment accounts, house and car titles and tax information, political donations, credit reports, court records, business transactions, and much, much more. Leaving things as they are isn't a realistic alternative. The question is how to fix things.
We saw what happened during the covid debacle, where vax status was the excuse or ploy they used to justify lockdowns, masking, abolish free travel, free speech etc. The authorities have proven themselves untrustworthy, greedy and power hungry to anyone who had a critical mind, but maybe they think we'll all forget about that when the money and propaganda flows out to convince us we really need this digital control system.
We already have digital ID's. We just don't have to carry them yet. But rest assured, all of you is digitally stored and immediately accessible by the state.
Vote for RFK Jr for President. He will block digital ID and bring down the surveillance state. The speed of everything unfolding right now is so rapid, it will catch the masses without them understanding the ramifications of it all. I guess that's the plan.
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Owning a cell phone is quite rare in my rural mountain community...we have no connections to receive calls. I have a phone but never use it. This idea of digital ID is the elitist dream of city office dwellers. Those banks and businesses that insist on sending security numbers by text are useless to rural people. You can't force the poor, the elderly or the digitally unserved to spend money on a cell phone that has no other use than identification. Make the nations' infrastructure universal (please don't!) before passing legislation that further invalidates citizens who don't live in the city.
Once they bring in Digital ID’s if there is mass compliance, all is lost for them.
I wonder what excuse they will use to bring them into the UK ? It will probably be the fabricated “riots” and disorder.
I have mixed feelings on this.
I see an advantage for fighting identity theft and fraud and elimination of confusion of identity such as when people have to deal with problems arising from similar names and such.
I think that it is an advantage for authorization for all the privileges of citizenship such as voter identification, eligibility for employment, purchase and possession of firearms, obtaining travel documents such as passports.
The biggest flaw is the possibility of invading privacy. I don't think that is an impediment though. The use could be made voluntary and allowed to be anonymous. If the police stop someone and think that they are someone else, they could have to be required to identify who they are looking for and the system could just say that this is not the person you are looking for and not disclose their actual identity.
You should also be able to audit any inquiries into your identity disclosing the person making the inquiry and the reason for the inquiry with severe penalties for unlawful use.
I can actually see ways that it could increase privacy. Of course getting that kind of privacy baked into the implementation would be a struggle.
Hard NO for me! Name one governmental program that has not been corrupted and abused. We might as well just post all our private data on social media…the government is not to be trusted!
We basically already have most of our private data posted on the internet. Banking and investment accounts, house and car titles and tax information, political donations, credit reports, court records, business transactions, and much, much more. Leaving things as they are isn't a realistic alternative. The question is how to fix things.
We saw what happened during the covid debacle, where vax status was the excuse or ploy they used to justify lockdowns, masking, abolish free travel, free speech etc. The authorities have proven themselves untrustworthy, greedy and power hungry to anyone who had a critical mind, but maybe they think we'll all forget about that when the money and propaganda flows out to convince us we really need this digital control system.
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We already have digital ID's. We just don't have to carry them yet. But rest assured, all of you is digitally stored and immediately accessible by the state.
Vote for RFK Jr for President. He will block digital ID and bring down the surveillance state. The speed of everything unfolding right now is so rapid, it will catch the masses without them understanding the ramifications of it all. I guess that's the plan.
Looks like RFK is dropping out and going maga