Is it Too Late to Escape From the Tyranny of Central Digital Control?

In an increasingly cashless society and with the Government pushing ahead with a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), offering the state total surveillance possibilities combined with the potential for “programming” money to be used only in certain ways, the issue of financial surveillance and control is only going to become more urgent. 

And all this even without Tony Blair again popping up to float mandatory Digital ID cards as the cure-all, this time for immigration. 

You don’t have to think very hard to see the potential of a mandatory, centralised digital ID system run by the state to be the precursor to a Chinese-style “social credit” system. Indeed, we had a primitive version of such a system during Covid in the shape of vaccine passports, which controlled our access to parts of society based on our willingness – or not – to follow the state’s “recommendations”. You can throw in pay-per-mile road user charging (which can only mean information gathered about your every movement), a dollop of psychological “nudge” theory and technocratic management by algorithm while you’re at it. It doesn’t take a genius to see the dangers of this emerging panopticon combined with Blair’s “one Government ID to rule them all”....<<<Read More>>>....