What digitial IDs canโt do:
- stop illegal immigration
- stop crime
- help the poor
- save money
- make your life easier
What digitial IDs can do:
- make billions for the people who operate them
- jeopardise your personal data, leaving you exposed to identity theft and blackmail
- stop working due to hacks, system crashes and technical glitches
- end your right to privacy
- enable the government to spy on you, recording your movements, shopping habits, social media contacts, social media posts, DMs, phone calls, text messages, emails, personal photos and videos, and even access your camera and microphone
- pave the way for authoritarian measures through constant surveillance, punishing wrong think and pre-crime
- switch off your access to anything that in future requires them, which could include anything from internet access to driving your car to using your bank account
Literally nobody voted for thisโฆ