Imagine a world where no part of your life is private. Everything you have – bank accounts, purchases, your medical history, every single form of identification – all of it is readily available to the government and public servants across the country and around the world. You cannot hide anything from anyone. Even your movements are tracked.

Oh, and this is not passive information, instead it can be used against you on a whim.

This is the future envisioned by our globalist elites. It is a world without privacy – themselves exempted, of course.

And the Australian government is keen to get started!

In recent weeks, it has come to light that the federal Labor government is seeking to introduce Digital Identity legislation by the end of the year to get the ball rolling on what is clearly an agenda laid out by the World Economic Forum. Spearheading the charge is Finance Minister Katy Gallagher, who, in a recent interview with the Australian Financial Review, said: ‘After years of indecision and delay, we are keen to work with governments and the private sector to progress a national Digital ID system.’

State and territory government ministers have negotiated a deal in which digital credentials, including driver’s licenses and occupational credentials, would be included in the system, which is viewed as a ‘digital wallet’. However, Senator Gallagher also wants those who choose not to participate in the scheme to be able to have an alternative method of sharing their credentials.

The system will also allow for both public and private services to be linked, meaning you can do everything from registering to vote and enrolling your children for school, to beginning employment and finalising the affairs of deceased loved ones. It is also hoped that the scheme will make it easier for businesses to verify the identities of their customers without collecting an excessive amount of personal information.

Australian Payments Plus and Mastercard have both expressed support for this system, which should be of concern to everyone. In fact, this whole system should be raising red flags. Here’s why.

While an all-inclusive Digital ID may look nice and dandy on the surface, providing individuals with a convenient way of accessing all their cards and forms of ID without the hassle of requiring a physical copy, it has sinister underpinnings and is open to all forms of malpractice.

The first red flag is that all governments, state and federal, are working together to push this legislation through. Further to that, the Federal Opposition is supportive of such legislation, with Shadow Minister for Government Services and the Digital Economy, Paul Fletcher, calling for the government to ‘take concrete action towards implementation of a national digital identity system’. When all sides of government openly support a system that nudges us toward the complete digitisation of the world, you should be asking questions.

This is made more poignant when you consider World Economic Forum leader Klaus Schwab’s remarks at the World Government Summit, in which he highlighted the increase in technology in our world and explicitly stated that whoever masters these technologies will be master of the world.

The implementation of a Digital ID system is a significant part of creating a world where everyone is reliant upon technology and, by extension, its master (or masters, if we’re talking about the conglomerate of globalist elites who hope to possess varying degrees of control over the remainder of society). Being solely dependent on the government is an incredibly vulnerable position for the citizenry to be in. It gives these digital masters far too much power over society and leaves people with practically no choice but to obey their edicts.

The second red flag is the willingness of companies, like Australian Payments Plus (an entity which comprises BPAY, eftpos, and NPP Australia, and Mastercard) to jump straight on board with a Digital Identity system. The public need to know what is being gained by both government and private enterprise before setting it into inescapable legislation. While for now it may seem like the system is simply a means of being able to provide proof of identity or certain health-related cards, like a Medicare card, without having to carry around your wallet, we could end up with a situation where all methods of payment are integrated into the digital collective. And when we compound this with the push towards a cashless society, it becomes clear that the system these governments want to fix firmly in place is one in which the only way to make a payment is digitally. It is easy for this environment, which lacks competition, to become coercive.

A system such as this could descend into a digital dystopia whereby all payments and purchases are tracked, and, eventually, payments or purchases are blocked or prohibited as a result of an individual possessing an ideology that does not align with that of the ruling class or not having enough social credit points to be deemed worthy of making certain purchases. China is a reasonable working example of this.

These are the nightmares that dystopic fiction is made of. Although, it may not be fiction for much longer.

Imagine going to the shops one day to purchase a loaf of bread. You go to the self-checkout, because this is the only way you can check out now, and scan your loaf. Then you scan your digital wallet to purchase the bread but the screen shows up an error message telling you that you cannot purchase the bread because last Tuesday you tweeted something mean about the World Economic Forum or criticised the latest vaccine. It doesn’t matter that what you said was true; it only matters that the government didn’t like it, so you are no longer allowed to purchase bread.

And sure, Katy Gallagher is free to argue that this whole Digital ID system is voluntary, but so were the vaccines at first and we all know what happened there. These big ideas usually start out voluntary, but I wager it won’t be long until the government is telling us we must have a Digital ID if we want to continue to be part of society.

And while the Senator may further say that this is being implemented to reduce the amount of personal data that needs to be provided to governments and businesses, we all know it will only be a matter of time before they ask for a little more information, and then a little more, and soon enough they’ll know everything there is to know about a person. Digital ID may very well open the floodgates to governments that want to collect private citizen data (which is currently severely restricted for privacy reasons).

Senator Gallagher also claims that the system will be trusted and secure. I think we know how ‘secure’ government systems are. If you want your personal data and information to be secure, you don’t hand it over to the government.

Digital ID is a path to serfdom for the vast majority of society. Sure, technology can be beneficial to us in various ways. But a complete reliance on technology leads to an inferior, vulnerable, and easily controlled human race. Digital ID may be convenient, but when those creating the system and writing its rules are the very same individuals easily corrupted by power, it transforms into an incredibly dangerous technology that can easily be weaponised against civil society.

And in a world where the lunatics are running the asylum, Digital ID only ends in digital dystopia.

Joel Agius is an independent writer. If you would like to read more of his work, you can do so at JJ’s Outlook or keep up to date with his musings on Twitter.

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