Big Data Meets Big Brother: Digital ID Is Here, by Jenna McCarthy

All of sudden, digital ID is popping up all over the world. From Jenna McCarthy at jennasside.rocks:

Remember when “equity and inclusion” meant you brought a Valentine for every kid in the class—even the jerk who poked you (on purpose!) with his compass the week before? Well, now it apparently means living in a kind of state-sponsored system Orwell didn’t even have the imagination to dream up—and it’s rolling out all over the world.

True story: I found this in an image search when I was verifying that I indeed had the right one. (Glad I’m not the only one.)

There’s endless yammering about how digital ID “closes the identification gap” (something about rural grandmas who can’t get to the DMV) and “speeds access to benefits” (as would making government forms shorter and less complicated than an Ayn Rand novel, for example), but here’s the real deal: It’s equitable because every global citizen, without exception, is going to be forced into it. See? So inclusive! And ironically, if you resist, you’ll be excluded from little societal benefits like enjoying utilities and collecting a paycheck.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has officially announced that the government will make Digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament—which is 2029. (Just in time for Agenda 2030! How convenient!)

You read that correctly. In Westminster, if you don’t give the government unfettered access to your eyeballs, hand over your fingerprints, agree to share your location at all times, trade your name for a barcode, and forsake every last speck of your privacy, you won’t be able to work. Which might sound heavenly—until you realize it means you can’t earn a living, which means you can’t feed your family, which means you basically can’t exist.

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