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The single best article I have read on this and what I have tried and failed to get across in my own articles, videos and interviews. If you read and share anything on this they should make it this article
Miles Harris on Youtube has also been on the ball. I just see the digital id announcement as another way the mainstream and popular ''alternative'' work in lockstep to distract people away from the ongoing covid inquiry evidence which is what everyone should be focused on exposing. It's COVID-19 The Great Reset have people forgot?
I agree. It is very important to expose the pseudopandemic which is why I published a book aimed at doing just that in June 2021. It is also why I published articles such as "Planned Euthanasia Does Not Constitute Healthcare No Matter How Hard You Clap For It," and, earlier in 2020, "What Vaccine Trials?"
Thank you for keeping tabs on the official inquiry flimflam. You are putting a very important record together. I may well revisit this topic and will probably reference your work as a source if I do.
I hope you can appreciate that, as a sole independent media journalist, I can only focus on one or two topics at a time. I am currently focused on the digital transformation, those behind it, and the sharp end of that transformation, digit ID linked to digital currency.
I am increasingly of the view that the point of the pseudopandemic was to accustom us to a lockdown society. It was testing and preparation for the digital transformation where we will be individually locked down. This is my present focus.
''BritCard is obviously a ruse.'' - I said this very early on but has anyone stopped to think WHY Starmer would be so bold now? His announcement co-incided with the start of the UK COVID-19 inquiry module 8 which has outlined catastrophic lockdown harms inflicted on our children and young people.
Why does the popular UK ''alt'' media not care about any of this? Protests and campaigns were launched in lockstep reaching millions in relation to digitial ID within days and this has contnued for weeks! Are they part of the control structure?
Where are the protests and awareness raising for the inquiry evidence which could and likely would result in arrests from which whether digital id or other WEF linked agenda would be impossible?
People should wonder why 16 months on there are no msm or 'alt' media articles about the following if they believe there is serious opposition out there.
Please see my response above. Though I am not a "popular UK 'alt' media" figure or representative of that group, I do care about this, but I am not currently focused on it. Thankfully you are. You are already doing what you can to raise awareness, as I and many others in the so-called "alt" media tried to do at the time. Following the enormous protest marches that took place in 2021, perhaps you could reinvigorate some activism on the subject.
Hi Iain, what i posted was most definetely not aimed at you in any way and i hope you don't mind me chiming in here about the inquiries because i hit a dead end now in the alt media space. I'm just dumbfounded everyone 'speaking out' is acting like it doesn't exist nor is of any importance.
A very interesting article - but given that it includes several paragraphs to how messed up and vulnerable to hacks this technology is, not to mention our data being sold of for commercial purposes, surely this project will collapse in its own inherent absurdity and bring the confidence of people in public institutions to new low.
It was only a few years ago the UK government wasted billions on a covid track and trace app and even tried to introduce a digital vaccine certificate. Another digital debacle.
Why should we believe it will be any different this time around? Another public-funded colossal failure in the digital realm is on its way. Nothing to lose sleep over.
Even if the government was successful in pulling off a total surveillance and restrictive digital world, (which I highly doubt), it would just spur the creation of a growing black market economy / society - which in time would become dominant.
Totally valid point about the project collapsing in its own absurdity yet what is so painful is that so many traps are already operating at this level of incoherence (i.e. facebook, google, no customer service total dead ends) and yet people keep using these platforms. So, what will it actually take to keep people away from these coming tech traps to begin with? Because once you have agreed to T&C might as well consider the door closed and locked from the outside. The systems don't have to function; they can encourage hacking and the ones who sign up will have no defense. It's the diabolical plan to drain the people of every precious moment they have.
Thanks Simon. I hopefully agree. Government is rubbish really and the UK government's record of managing large infrastructure projects is laughable.
Unfortunately, the government isn't leading on this, multinational corporations are and they are following the global governance agenda that both they and their government partners wish to fulfill.
The track and trace app and mandatory jabs (effectively) was obviously a feasibility test for digital ID in my view. I fear adoption rates were good enough for them to think they could proceed. Which is why we are where we are now I think.
So while we can hope and even expect this to be the usual policy disaster, we cannot assume they won't push through. We will still be marginalised if we don't comply. People will be shut out of various services if they don't get their jabs as instructed. People will sbe cut off from social media if they say the wrong thing. That this will be haphazard, inaccurate, and unreasonable is almost guaranteed.
We do have to resist this, otherwise they will simply implement a horrendous almost certainly inept, unsafe and practically useless digital ID system. But it's impact on us will be no less deleterious for that.
Personally, I am not overly worried because Government have had tabs on my whereabouts since 2004 to my certain knowledge, maybe even long before that. It has never caused me any grief.
GCHQ once showed my husband photos of me which went back to 1969. When I lost my mobile phone while traveling in Spain, my son phoned Interpol who were proud to tell me that it took them only 11 minutes to find me and give me his phone number!
How? There was an electronic chip in the back of my passport which they used to locate me.
Yep. My face is plastered all over the internet and I keep drawing attention to myself and have had the obligatory "visit" to remind me to stay in lane. Like you, as I am basically law abiding, I am not particularly bothered but things like the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021 give me some personal concerns.
I had a look at the CCA 2021 and I can't really see how anyone could see your work as potentially criminal but I am not a plod with a shoe sized IQ.... so I guess they could find a way to surmise that any one of us dissidents is sufficiently anti-establishment to warrant official interception. Mind you, since when have authorised officials held back from committing crimes? I could provide anecdotal tales of their normal nefarious activities to fill a book!
“I’m no expert on the law, but the government’s gambit to insist that we “must” have digital ID to live and work in the UK may be “legal” but it doesn’t appear to be lawful. And lawful trumps legal every time. “ well said. How can it be? I am not the mask.
Louis Mosley, is the eldest grandson of Sir Oswald and Diana Mosley (née Mitford) and the Head of data firm, Palantir in the UK. Before Mosley’s successful career at the sleek software company (which had a role in tracking down terrorist Bin Laden in 2011), the 42-year-old was a Conservative party activist. Politics has run through Louis’ family for generations as his grandparents, Sir Oswald and Diana Mosley, became key figures in Britain’s far-right political movement in the 1930s
One potential way to game the system is the classic espionage trick of bombarding the fuck out of the enemy with masses upon masses of information.
In the case of 'digital' this will not only fuck their algorithm up the jacksie, but if enough people join in then the system might crash.
I am also somewhat certain that a new order of subversive dissidents will arise and start carrying out physical attacks of sabotage against the infrastructure itself, seeing as we are, in fact, talking about physical stuff here - 'digital' might be misinterpreted by some as non-physical, but it isn't - it's electricity and circuitry, it's exceptionally power hungry, and needs constant air conditioning, not to mention armed goons wandering about the perimeter day and night with specially trained German Shepherds (who, I am told, are continuously partial to a nice marrow-rich bone or a juicy chunk of meat which just happens to be wrapped around a fat chunk of Moroccan Black).
Not surprising they build these places from reconditioned nuclear bunkers.
Oh there is so definitely a postmodern apocalyptic novel in there.
I wish more he even a fraction of the understanding of what is just around the corner if we do not refuse this enmass.
Individually, I have seen or dealt with various pieces of this puzzle for the past 30 plus years. While the earliest examples predate much of the tech we now take for granted, they still illustrate the bureaucratic mind set that will be even more difficult to avoid once we are in the digital prison.
In May 2000, I graduated from college and just returned from a drive going through several states to set up living arrangements for myself and some reenacting buddies who got jobs at a National Battlefield Park. Prior to graduating, I landed a bigger job that would begin in September that same year, teaching English in Japan. With the tight schedule I would have at the end of the summer, I thought it best to renew my driver’s licenses early. However, this proved problematic as someone else had already done so. This means, that had I been stopped for any reason during my multi-state trip, I would have faced charges as the driver’s license I had was, unbeknownst to me, no longer valid. This would have oven me a criminal record that would be difficult to clear up before I was to fly to Japan. It likely would have had adverse consequences for my visa as well.
The results were farther reaching than just these major difficulties for one who just graduated college and starting off on a professional life. Visiting home a few years later, I went to renew my driver’s license again. As a result of being a victim of ID theft, I can no longer renew my license in one day. The DMV needs to investigate my renewal application to determine if I am me, a process that takes a week or more.
In more recent years, the U.S. government has enacted FATCA which forces all financial institutions outside the US to report all information they have all the U.S. claims as U.S. Persons. They also added a passport revocation provision in an entirely unrelated bill as its funding mechanism. The short of this is, if the U.S. government suspects one of its citizens of owning it $50,000 or more, and not just in taxes, then it may refuse issuing a passport or revoke one the suspected delinquent citizen already has. We who live abroad are a preferred group to steal IDs from. Occasional Google searches for my name and Social Security Number (SSN#) indicates that at least one, and I believe at least two or three are using my name and SSN# as I have learned that I have three ex wives in the States and 3 children by them in addition to multiple professional and trade certificates issued to me by States I have never lived in. If one or more of these run up a debt to the federal government totaling $50,000, then I may be in Japan illegally, not knowing that my passport has been revoked. If stopped by the police here, and I learn that my passport has been revoked, look to what happened to Bobby Fisher when his was revoked. After finally being deported to the U.S., I would have little recourse as U.S. prohibits challenging any kind of debt to the government until it is first paid. Once paid, I would then have to sue the government in the proper court. With what funds would I pay for this massively expensive odyssey?
But this is not just a problem we yanks must live with. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has their own cross boarder reporting regime call the Common Reporting Standards (CRS). The publicly stated goal of the OECD’s CRSs is for all cross boarder transactions involving member nations to be reported to all members. At present, anytime any resident of any OECD member state travels to another member country, then both countries will share all financial information they have on that person and if that person is a citizen of a third member state, with them too, at the very least. Once fully operational, such information will be automatically shared with all member states. It may be already be happening, I have checked the status since sometime before the panic. But, it is not just those who physically cross borders. If a resident of one member country buys anything online from a seller in another member state, the same exchange of information occurs. As you note, the security of UK’s system is far from impregnable, but are all OECD states’ digital security up to even the UK’s? What recourse does anyone have once their data is leaked?
Digital IDs will only make this worse. The U.S. DoD has informed me on three different occasions that my service record was leaked. Were these leaks what allowed those living under my name to do so? Have no idea, but they could be and they still could allow others to do so.
After reading this post and as I was writing the above, the headline below caught my eye.
“China Spy Scandal Spirals: Cummings Claims Massive Beijing Hack of Britain’s Highest Secrets Already Happened and Was Covered Up”
Apparently, China simply bought the company the British government uses to handle such things, giving them instant access.
There is no such thing as an unsinkable ship, and impregnable fortress or wall. Nor is there a secure data system, especially one that a large number of people in multiple jurisdictions have access to. Further, having these massive data bases on everyone will attract all hackers and those who use other means to gain access to this immensely valuable, massively large data set. They will gain access to it if it means kidnapping the families of government employees who have access to it. Your data will be stolen and thus your ID and then you too will get to enjoy the fun of proving you are you to system that will not allow you to.
Additionally, there are the Internet of Things and FinTech to add more side dishes to the feast from Hell.
I had to get something called a DBS cert for work which some companies want before you step on their site. It checks your criminal record. But now I need to do it via onelogin which wasn't previously the case. I was too lazy to do it by the post office. It felt wrong doing it. Interesting to hear doing by the post office doesn't make any difference as its just someone else entering my details to the system. I heard someone who works for the client refused to give his details. It means he can't go on site but he hasn't been sacked.
He hasn't been sacked? That's interesting. I do wonder how they will lawfully terminate people's employment simply by insisting they adopt digital ID. Surely that will be a change of contractual terms (for those fortunate enough to have a contract). I don't quite see how they could sack someone in such circumstances without breaching employment law.
They may let away the odd person but if it became more I think they would threaten sacking due to them not being able to fulfil their duties. In this case site visits. I think a good response from ppl who want to resist in the meantime is that one login doesn't have the accreditation.
Appreciated but thankfully many others in the UK are also offering reasonable arguments. Clare Wills Harrison, Miles Harris and Fiona Rose Diamond for example.
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Thank you.
The single best article I have read on this and what I have tried and failed to get across in my own articles, videos and interviews. If you read and share anything on this they should make it this article
Thank you Iain
Miles Harris on Youtube has also been on the ball. I just see the digital id announcement as another way the mainstream and popular ''alternative'' work in lockstep to distract people away from the ongoing covid inquiry evidence which is what everyone should be focused on exposing. It's COVID-19 The Great Reset have people forgot?
https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/newuk-covid-19-inquiry8-oct-2025-e9b
https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/newuk-covid-19-inquiry-module-6-care
https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/newscottish-covid-19-inquiry29-sept-9a5
I agree. It is very important to expose the pseudopandemic which is why I published a book aimed at doing just that in June 2021. It is also why I published articles such as "Planned Euthanasia Does Not Constitute Healthcare No Matter How Hard You Clap For It," and, earlier in 2020, "What Vaccine Trials?"
https://iaindavis.com/pseudopandemic/
https://iaindavis.com/planned-euthanasia/
https://iaindavis.com/vaccine-trials/
Thank you for keeping tabs on the official inquiry flimflam. You are putting a very important record together. I may well revisit this topic and will probably reference your work as a source if I do.
I hope you can appreciate that, as a sole independent media journalist, I can only focus on one or two topics at a time. I am currently focused on the digital transformation, those behind it, and the sharp end of that transformation, digit ID linked to digital currency.
I am increasingly of the view that the point of the pseudopandemic was to accustom us to a lockdown society. It was testing and preparation for the digital transformation where we will be individually locked down. This is my present focus.
It was definitely a social experiment, that's for sure. I felt that from the very beginning.
Yes I agree this was very helpful! Thanks Ian!
Thank You for explaining this scam in such a precise but easy to follow way.
It will be getting forwarded to all the useful idiots I know who are still asleep despite being in this Tyranny for over 5 years.
Mind you whether they read it or not is another problem.
Another excellent article Iain. I've been following Miles Harris on Youtube who was the only person i saw calling this out. https://www.youtube.com/@milesharris5315/videos
''BritCard is obviously a ruse.'' - I said this very early on but has anyone stopped to think WHY Starmer would be so bold now? His announcement co-incided with the start of the UK COVID-19 inquiry module 8 which has outlined catastrophic lockdown harms inflicted on our children and young people.
https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/newuk-covid-19-inquiry8-oct-2025-e9b
https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/newuk-covid-19-inquiry1-oct-2025
https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/exclusiveuk-covid-19-inquiryevery
There was another distractive narrative when module 6 care homes begun.
https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/newuk-covid-19-inquiry-module-6-care
https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/exclusiveuk-covid-19-inquiry-bereaved?utm_source=publication-search
Why does the popular UK ''alt'' media not care about any of this? Protests and campaigns were launched in lockstep reaching millions in relation to digitial ID within days and this has contnued for weeks! Are they part of the control structure?
Where are the protests and awareness raising for the inquiry evidence which could and likely would result in arrests from which whether digital id or other WEF linked agenda would be impossible?
People should wonder why 16 months on there are no msm or 'alt' media articles about the following if they believe there is serious opposition out there.
https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/scottish-covid-19-inquiryclosing
Please see my response above. Though I am not a "popular UK 'alt' media" figure or representative of that group, I do care about this, but I am not currently focused on it. Thankfully you are. You are already doing what you can to raise awareness, as I and many others in the so-called "alt" media tried to do at the time. Following the enormous protest marches that took place in 2021, perhaps you could reinvigorate some activism on the subject.
Hi Iain, what i posted was most definetely not aimed at you in any way and i hope you don't mind me chiming in here about the inquiries because i hit a dead end now in the alt media space. I'm just dumbfounded everyone 'speaking out' is acting like it doesn't exist nor is of any importance.
Masterfully written, Iain! Thank you!
Appreciated Frances.
A very interesting article - but given that it includes several paragraphs to how messed up and vulnerable to hacks this technology is, not to mention our data being sold of for commercial purposes, surely this project will collapse in its own inherent absurdity and bring the confidence of people in public institutions to new low.
It was only a few years ago the UK government wasted billions on a covid track and trace app and even tried to introduce a digital vaccine certificate. Another digital debacle.
Why should we believe it will be any different this time around? Another public-funded colossal failure in the digital realm is on its way. Nothing to lose sleep over.
Even if the government was successful in pulling off a total surveillance and restrictive digital world, (which I highly doubt), it would just spur the creation of a growing black market economy / society - which in time would become dominant.
Totally valid point about the project collapsing in its own absurdity yet what is so painful is that so many traps are already operating at this level of incoherence (i.e. facebook, google, no customer service total dead ends) and yet people keep using these platforms. So, what will it actually take to keep people away from these coming tech traps to begin with? Because once you have agreed to T&C might as well consider the door closed and locked from the outside. The systems don't have to function; they can encourage hacking and the ones who sign up will have no defense. It's the diabolical plan to drain the people of every precious moment they have.
Thanks Simon. I hopefully agree. Government is rubbish really and the UK government's record of managing large infrastructure projects is laughable.
Unfortunately, the government isn't leading on this, multinational corporations are and they are following the global governance agenda that both they and their government partners wish to fulfill.
The track and trace app and mandatory jabs (effectively) was obviously a feasibility test for digital ID in my view. I fear adoption rates were good enough for them to think they could proceed. Which is why we are where we are now I think.
So while we can hope and even expect this to be the usual policy disaster, we cannot assume they won't push through. We will still be marginalised if we don't comply. People will be shut out of various services if they don't get their jabs as instructed. People will sbe cut off from social media if they say the wrong thing. That this will be haphazard, inaccurate, and unreasonable is almost guaranteed.
We do have to resist this, otherwise they will simply implement a horrendous almost certainly inept, unsafe and practically useless digital ID system. But it's impact on us will be no less deleterious for that.
This is a superbly written summary of the danger that lies ahead, I will be circulating far and wide although I fear the majority just do not care
Personally, I am not overly worried because Government have had tabs on my whereabouts since 2004 to my certain knowledge, maybe even long before that. It has never caused me any grief.
GCHQ once showed my husband photos of me which went back to 1969. When I lost my mobile phone while traveling in Spain, my son phoned Interpol who were proud to tell me that it took them only 11 minutes to find me and give me his phone number!
How? There was an electronic chip in the back of my passport which they used to locate me.
Yep. My face is plastered all over the internet and I keep drawing attention to myself and have had the obligatory "visit" to remind me to stay in lane. Like you, as I am basically law abiding, I am not particularly bothered but things like the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021 give me some personal concerns.
I had a look at the CCA 2021 and I can't really see how anyone could see your work as potentially criminal but I am not a plod with a shoe sized IQ.... so I guess they could find a way to surmise that any one of us dissidents is sufficiently anti-establishment to warrant official interception. Mind you, since when have authorised officials held back from committing crimes? I could provide anecdotal tales of their normal nefarious activities to fill a book!
“I’m no expert on the law, but the government’s gambit to insist that we “must” have digital ID to live and work in the UK may be “legal” but it doesn’t appear to be lawful. And lawful trumps legal every time. “ well said. How can it be? I am not the mask.
Louis Mosley is head of UK Palantir.
Louis Mosley
Louis Mosley, is the eldest grandson of Sir Oswald and Diana Mosley (née Mitford) and the Head of data firm, Palantir in the UK. Before Mosley’s successful career at the sleek software company (which had a role in tracking down terrorist Bin Laden in 2011), the 42-year-old was a Conservative party activist. Politics has run through Louis’ family for generations as his grandparents, Sir Oswald and Diana Mosley, became key figures in Britain’s far-right political movement in the 1930s
https://www.tatler.com/gallery/most-glamorous-mitford-descendants
Iain - Just posted on your Telegram Channel:
Gov.Uk want you to sign up for ‘One Login’ but this went virtually unreported yesterday 20th October:
https://news.sky.com/story/whats-affected-by-internet-outage-all-we-know-so-far-13453813
Today 21st October:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/20/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-hits-dozens-websites-apps
HMRC Gateway Services were affected, along with numerous others to include Banks (See two MP’s response)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15208111/Snapchat-Roblox-Duolingo-Fortnite-outage.html?title=crashing%20a%20significant%20portion%20of%20the%20internet
Watch Video = ‘Can’t rule out Cyber Attack - yet’!
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/amazon-outage-october-2025
Great In-Depth article showing time-lines and which Companies were affected.
More reasons to say ‘NO’! ⚖️
One potential way to game the system is the classic espionage trick of bombarding the fuck out of the enemy with masses upon masses of information.
In the case of 'digital' this will not only fuck their algorithm up the jacksie, but if enough people join in then the system might crash.
I am also somewhat certain that a new order of subversive dissidents will arise and start carrying out physical attacks of sabotage against the infrastructure itself, seeing as we are, in fact, talking about physical stuff here - 'digital' might be misinterpreted by some as non-physical, but it isn't - it's electricity and circuitry, it's exceptionally power hungry, and needs constant air conditioning, not to mention armed goons wandering about the perimeter day and night with specially trained German Shepherds (who, I am told, are continuously partial to a nice marrow-rich bone or a juicy chunk of meat which just happens to be wrapped around a fat chunk of Moroccan Black).
Not surprising they build these places from reconditioned nuclear bunkers.
Oh there is so definitely a postmodern apocalyptic novel in there.
Zero knowledge / Zero trust technology is necessary.
I see no other way forward.
Indeed. It exists, let's use it.
I wish more he even a fraction of the understanding of what is just around the corner if we do not refuse this enmass.
Individually, I have seen or dealt with various pieces of this puzzle for the past 30 plus years. While the earliest examples predate much of the tech we now take for granted, they still illustrate the bureaucratic mind set that will be even more difficult to avoid once we are in the digital prison.
In May 2000, I graduated from college and just returned from a drive going through several states to set up living arrangements for myself and some reenacting buddies who got jobs at a National Battlefield Park. Prior to graduating, I landed a bigger job that would begin in September that same year, teaching English in Japan. With the tight schedule I would have at the end of the summer, I thought it best to renew my driver’s licenses early. However, this proved problematic as someone else had already done so. This means, that had I been stopped for any reason during my multi-state trip, I would have faced charges as the driver’s license I had was, unbeknownst to me, no longer valid. This would have oven me a criminal record that would be difficult to clear up before I was to fly to Japan. It likely would have had adverse consequences for my visa as well.
The results were farther reaching than just these major difficulties for one who just graduated college and starting off on a professional life. Visiting home a few years later, I went to renew my driver’s license again. As a result of being a victim of ID theft, I can no longer renew my license in one day. The DMV needs to investigate my renewal application to determine if I am me, a process that takes a week or more.
In more recent years, the U.S. government has enacted FATCA which forces all financial institutions outside the US to report all information they have all the U.S. claims as U.S. Persons. They also added a passport revocation provision in an entirely unrelated bill as its funding mechanism. The short of this is, if the U.S. government suspects one of its citizens of owning it $50,000 or more, and not just in taxes, then it may refuse issuing a passport or revoke one the suspected delinquent citizen already has. We who live abroad are a preferred group to steal IDs from. Occasional Google searches for my name and Social Security Number (SSN#) indicates that at least one, and I believe at least two or three are using my name and SSN# as I have learned that I have three ex wives in the States and 3 children by them in addition to multiple professional and trade certificates issued to me by States I have never lived in. If one or more of these run up a debt to the federal government totaling $50,000, then I may be in Japan illegally, not knowing that my passport has been revoked. If stopped by the police here, and I learn that my passport has been revoked, look to what happened to Bobby Fisher when his was revoked. After finally being deported to the U.S., I would have little recourse as U.S. prohibits challenging any kind of debt to the government until it is first paid. Once paid, I would then have to sue the government in the proper court. With what funds would I pay for this massively expensive odyssey?
But this is not just a problem we yanks must live with. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has their own cross boarder reporting regime call the Common Reporting Standards (CRS). The publicly stated goal of the OECD’s CRSs is for all cross boarder transactions involving member nations to be reported to all members. At present, anytime any resident of any OECD member state travels to another member country, then both countries will share all financial information they have on that person and if that person is a citizen of a third member state, with them too, at the very least. Once fully operational, such information will be automatically shared with all member states. It may be already be happening, I have checked the status since sometime before the panic. But, it is not just those who physically cross borders. If a resident of one member country buys anything online from a seller in another member state, the same exchange of information occurs. As you note, the security of UK’s system is far from impregnable, but are all OECD states’ digital security up to even the UK’s? What recourse does anyone have once their data is leaked?
Digital IDs will only make this worse. The U.S. DoD has informed me on three different occasions that my service record was leaked. Were these leaks what allowed those living under my name to do so? Have no idea, but they could be and they still could allow others to do so.
After reading this post and as I was writing the above, the headline below caught my eye.
“China Spy Scandal Spirals: Cummings Claims Massive Beijing Hack of Britain’s Highest Secrets Already Happened and Was Covered Up”
Apparently, China simply bought the company the British government uses to handle such things, giving them instant access.
There is no such thing as an unsinkable ship, and impregnable fortress or wall. Nor is there a secure data system, especially one that a large number of people in multiple jurisdictions have access to. Further, having these massive data bases on everyone will attract all hackers and those who use other means to gain access to this immensely valuable, massively large data set. They will gain access to it if it means kidnapping the families of government employees who have access to it. Your data will be stolen and thus your ID and then you too will get to enjoy the fun of proving you are you to system that will not allow you to.
Additionally, there are the Internet of Things and FinTech to add more side dishes to the feast from Hell.
I had to get something called a DBS cert for work which some companies want before you step on their site. It checks your criminal record. But now I need to do it via onelogin which wasn't previously the case. I was too lazy to do it by the post office. It felt wrong doing it. Interesting to hear doing by the post office doesn't make any difference as its just someone else entering my details to the system. I heard someone who works for the client refused to give his details. It means he can't go on site but he hasn't been sacked.
He hasn't been sacked? That's interesting. I do wonder how they will lawfully terminate people's employment simply by insisting they adopt digital ID. Surely that will be a change of contractual terms (for those fortunate enough to have a contract). I don't quite see how they could sack someone in such circumstances without breaching employment law.
They may let away the odd person but if it became more I think they would threaten sacking due to them not being able to fulfil their duties. In this case site visits. I think a good response from ppl who want to resist in the meantime is that one login doesn't have the accreditation.
I would say you are the best on digital id. You go into the fine detail that others don't.
Appreciated but thankfully many others in the UK are also offering reasonable arguments. Clare Wills Harrison, Miles Harris and Fiona Rose Diamond for example.