{"id":313278,"date":"2025-08-07T05:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313278"},"modified":"2025-08-11T07:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:28:02","slug":"quick-takeare-digital-ids-coming-piecemeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313278","title":{"rendered":"Quick Take\u2026Are Digital IDs coming piecemeal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian Aug 6, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I\u2019m starting to think a full-scale, nationwide compulsory digital ID won\u2019t ever be a thing. Not officially, anyway. Not for quite a while.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a vibe I feel coming off the news that gels more with the current methodology \u2013 the indirect authoritarianism of the easier path. Piecemeal tyranny washed in on waves of convenience.<\/p>\n

According to a 2023 report (which resurfaced last week for some reason<\/a>), in the near future, British citizens will likely need electronic \u201cCarbon Passports\u201d to travel. These will be digital documents that track and limit your travel based on carbon emissions.<\/p>\n

During Covid, digital \u201cvaccine passes\u201d were needed to differentiate those who had been vaccinated from those who had not. If and when another \u201cpandemic\u201d rolls around, they will be used again.<\/p>\n

From the end of this year, British driver\u2019s licenses will be digital<\/a> and accessed through the government\u2019s wallet app. In the future, your road tax will be paid via GPS tracking of your car<\/a>, linked to your driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n

Late last year, the government began replacing previous immigration documents with \u201ceVisas\u201d, a process which is due to complete before the end of 2025.<\/p>\n

The Online Safety Act has brought in widespread age verification online. Wouldn\u2019t that be so much easier if we had a government app, like the one being trialled in the EU<\/a>, which verifies your age \u201cwhilst keeping all other personal information private\u201d<\/em>?<\/p>\n

In short, even before we officially have the infamous Digital ID, every interaction with the state is being digitised via an app on your phone, which you likely carry around with you all day, every day.<\/p>\n

It must be taken entirely on trust that the app which tracks your international travel, the app which tracks your car, the app which tracks your taxes, the app which tracks your immigration status, the app which tracks your health records and the app which verifies your age are all entirely separate.<\/p>\n

Do you truly believe they are?<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is that, in one form or another, every proposed usage of digital ID scheme either already exists or will do so in the near future.<\/p>\n

The only reason to formally unify it into a single mandatory ID badge would be normalisation, a watermark transformation of the mental and emotional relationship between citizen and state.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m beginning to think we will have digital ID \u2013 brought in a little at time \u2013 for years<\/em> before anyone in power decides to call it by its true name<\/p>\n

And they won\u2019t do that until they\u2019re asked.<\/p>\n

Starmer\u2019s proposed national ID scheme may be theatrically scrapped, a development which could be sold as a massive win for human rights even while the digital ID infrastructure remains.<\/p>\n

In the intervening years, the performatively \u201cseparate\u201d apps and trackers and forms will be plagued by much-publicised \u201cinefficiencies\u201d, which columnists will complain \u201ccost the taxpayer millions in the name of mythical privacy\u201d<\/em>. Campaigns will call for \u201ca more unified digital system\u201d<\/em> which \u201cboosts interdepartmental communication<\/em>\u201d in the name of \u201cincreasing efficiency and cutting administration costs\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2026And then they\u2019ll pull back the curtain, and announce the \u201cstreamlined\u201d digital identity service, which will have existed for years but never been acknowledged.<\/p>\n

But maybe I\u2019m wrong. It could be the introduced tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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