Digital ID: You’ll Own Nothing and Scan Everything

MIKE FAIRCLOUGH

You can already hear it, can’t you? The dreary chorus of ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear.’

Soon your neighbour, your colleague, and that bloke in the pub will all sound like NPCs reciting the gospel of Digital ID.

And if you’re happy to trade liberty for ignorance, don’t whimper when your life resembles Kim Jong-un’s playpen with a Tesco Clubcard.

Digital ID: You’ll Own Nothing and Scan Everything

Welcome to Brave New Blighty, where your papers are digital, your wallet is monitored, and your freedom is conditional. Great Britain is teetering on the brink of ushering in a national digital ID system.

Yes, the same Britain that once prided itself on civil liberties, privacy, and a general disdain for government overreach. Now, our political class, like a dodgy Carry On character with a penchant for surveillance, is dangling the shiny promise of “convenience” while quietly sliding the handcuffs into place.

Think back, if your memory hasn’t been wiped by the Ministry of Health. During the pandemic, we got a taste of digital control with those charming little vaccine passports. Want to enter a venue? Flash your app. Want to fly, work, or exist in polite society? Better have your QR code scanned, jab status verified, and obedience levels recalibrated.

That little COVID experiment was a not-so-dry run for a far more sinister project.

The digital ID being proposed is not some benign bit of modern admin. It is, quite frankly, a blueprint for technocratic control. It won’t stop with your name and date of birth. Oh no.

Soon, your biometric data, spending habits, health records, social media activity, and ideological alignment could be packed into your shiny new BritCard.

Want to buy a pint or a sausage roll? Better scan in first. Had too many pints this week? Sorry, your cholesterol’s high and your carbon credits are low. Try again next month.

Now imagine the government deciding you’ve said something “hateful” (which is Newspeak for “unpopular”). Suddenly, your car won’t start. Your social media is locked. Your travel rights revoked. It’s not a stretch of the imagination. This is a roadmap, and we’re already halfway there.

During the COVID era, the Canadian government showed us what financial control looks like in real time: freezing the bank accounts of protesters and their supporters with the flick of a bureaucratic switch.

Here in Britain, the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error, and Recovery) Bill is quietly being pushed through to give similar powers to our own institutions. Banks would be compelled to monitor accounts using secret government criteria.

We already have “non-crime hate incidents” logged by the police. So why not tag your digital ID with a bit of extra social suspicion?

This isn’t sci-fi. It’s not even speculative fiction. It’s the logical conclusion of a government drunk on power and corporations only too happy to do their bidding.

Because only the government can coerce the private sector into compliance, and with digital ID, that coercion becomes seamless. Whether it’s PayPal, your bank, or your local supermarket, compliance will be built in.

And what follows digital ID? That delightful invention from dystopia: the social credit system.

Say something wrong. Think something unapproved. Donate to the wrong cause. Suddenly you’re locked out of your finances, denied access to transport, and treated like a digital leper. Welcome to 1984 with a user interface.

Of course, the BBC and The Guardian have done their bit to label any such concerns as “conspiracy theories.” According to them, worrying about surveillance, control, or globalist agendas is just paranoid nonsense.

BBC Verify will explain, ever so patiently, that central bank digital currencies and digital ID schemes are perfectly safe and anyone who disagrees probably owns too many tinfoil hats.

The Guardian, never one to miss a chance to condescend, dismisses opposition as the whining of anti-globalist populists. Apparently, if you oppose vaccine passports or a national ID scheme, you’re only a hop and a goose-step away from the far right. The new mantra: trust the institutions, question nothing, comply.

But even as the media scoffs, the examples of control keep piling up. PayPal has become the financial enforcer of woke orthodoxy. In the UK, it suspended accounts belonging to the Free Speech Union, The Daily Sceptic, and Toby Young for the crime of expressing lockdown scepticism. After a public backlash, they reinstated them, but the message was clear: step out of line, lose your money. Even parents’ group UsForThem was targeted for daring to question school closures.

In the US, PayPal went further, banning Gays Against Groomers for challenging gender ideology in schools, and cutting off biologist Colin Wright for the heresy of believing in biological sex.

If private companies can do this now, imagine what they’ll do once plugged into a national digital ID grid.

For now, you can still talk about digital ID without being entirely cancelled. But the window is closing.

Soon, questioning the BritCard will be seen as dangerous extremism, lumped in with flat-Earthers and anti-vaxxers, and probably flagged on some AI-run government watchlist.

Thankfully, not everyone is asleep at the digital wheel. Groups like Big Brother Watch, Open Rights Group, Privacy International, and the Free Speech Union are sounding the alarm. UsForThem continues to champion parental rights and bodily autonomy.

Even former Cabinet Minister and Brexit bulldog Lord David Frost has called digital ID “deeply illiberal” and warned of its threat to personal freedom. Once dismissed as fringe cranks, these voices are now at the vanguard of defending the very concept of liberty.

So what’s the solution? It’s simple. Don’t comply. Don’t sign up. Don’t hand over your data to a government that has shown time and again it cannot be trusted.

If enough people say “no,” the whole rotten edifice collapses.

Aldous Huxley warned of a future where people are enslaved by pleasure and convenience. Orwell warned of a boot stamping on a human face forever. Yevgeny Zamyatin, in We, painted a vision of a society so ordered, so controlled, that citizens were numbers, not names. Digital ID is the lovechild of all three.

So the next time someone offers you a seamless, secure, government-approved identity wallet, remember: the price of convenience might just be your freedom.

Cancel the BritCard before it cancels you.

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Newly appointed UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has opened the door to the rollout of digital ID systems in the UK, reviving a proposal she has previously supported.

Mahmood’s remarks came during a high-level meeting with allies in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, where migration and security were top of the agenda.

Speaking alongside her counterparts from the US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, she laid out her position.

“Well my long-term personal political view has always been in favor of ID cards. In fact I supported the last Labour government’s introduction of ID cards. The first bill I spoke on in Parliament was the ID cards bill which the then Conservative Lib Dem coalition scrapped. So I have a long-standing position which anybody who’s familiar with my view.”

Her comments arrive just days into her tenure, following a dramatic cabinet reshuffle that has reset key departments, including the Home Office.

With illegal small boat crossings continuing to rise and more than 1,000 people arriving in a single day over the weekend, the pressure on the government to deliver results is intensifying. The total number of arrivals this year has already passed 30,000.

Mahmood emphasized that these plans are not borrowed ideas.

“This is a Labour government with Labour policy and Labour proposals,” she said. She insisted that Labour had been preparing these policy positions well in advance of taking office.

Mahmood added that digital ID is something that she has “always supported.”

Now in a position to influence policy directly, she stopped short of confirming a rollout but said it remains under discussion within government. She offered no clear answer when asked whether every UK citizen would be required to have one.

The stated goal is to reduce illegal employment and weaken incentives that draw people to cross into the UK without authorization. For privacy advocates, however, the return of digital ID proposals raises longstanding concerns about surveillance, data control, and potential misuse.

“In the end, this is about how you strike the balance between human rights on the one hand, and securing our borders,” she said. “I do think that that balance isn’t in the right place at the moment.”

She pointed to forthcoming changes to domestic laws and legal guidance as the preferred method of adjusting that balance rather than leaving the convention outright.

While Mahmood avoided giving a timeline for any digital ID scheme, her renewed emphasis on identity systems suggests a shift that could have wide-reaching consequences for privacy in the UK.

Whether the idea moves beyond internal discussions may now depend on how far the government is willing to go.

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