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UK Government is Designing and Installing a Digital Identity Panopticon

By her own admission, the UK Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, aims to create a digital identity Panopticon using AI and technology to constantly monitor citizens.

The UK government’s digital identity system will use biometric data, such as facial recognition, to create unique identity tokens, enabling real-time monitoring and predictive analysis of individual behaviour.

To establish the official UK digital identity Panopticon, the government and its partners do not require us to adopt any new forms of digital identity. Though it is trying to manipulate us into submitting our biometric authentication token to its GOV.UK digital identity wallet. And once we are manipulated into adopting our digital identities, they will be made interoperable across the whole of the UK economy. [Read More]

The Myth of the UK’s Axed Mandatory Digital ID Plans

By now, you’ve probably heard: The British Labour government is not bringing in mandatory digital ID. Rejoice! The freedom-loving Brit can breathe easy again, safe in the knowledge that no one will be asked to wave some creepy state-issued QR code at the pub. Or the supermarket. Or the job centre. Except, well…they sort of will. 

According to The Times, Labour is quietly yanking back the explicit demand for a national digital ID, but it’s the same way a magician might yank a tablecloth while keeping the cutlery exactly where it was. 

They make it look like the plan has changed. But we’re still marching briskly into the warm digital embrace of compulsory identity checks. [Read More]

BritCard was a Smokescreen; UK Government has Not Shelved Plans for Compulsory Digital IDs

The UK government confirmed it is scrapping the mandatory requirement for digital ID cards by 2029 – those opposing digital IDs celebrated. However, the devil is in the details. 

The government has only scrapped the “BritCard” scheme; it is still proceeding with plans to require some form of digital identification.

“By using the BritCard deception to misrepresent digital identity, the government provided the people with a loathed bogeyman they could easily defeat. The evident ploy was supposed to lull the people into accepting their digital identities by convincing them they had successfully rejected the fake BritCard version of digital ID,” Iain Davis writes. [Read More]

UK and EU in race to destroy all last traces of freedom of speech

Britain, a country which practically invented the tenets of free speech, is now the most repressive, backward country of the West which is ridiculed on a daily basis by the very same countries that it regaled for its human rights record. There are just too many cases to rattle off which have at least made the news – social media, at least – but the mother who had police officers come into her house while she was in the bath to arrest her for calling an ex-boyfriend a ‘faggot’ has shocked many, given that the boyfriend in question beat her up and the message was not even sent to him. Elizabeth Kinney escaped jail but received a sentence involving community service and a considerable fine. Kinney was just one of around 12,000 people each year in the UK who are arrested and charged for giving their views about a given subject which the state deems could hurt someone, or in the case of politics, if it simply challenges a narrative. This farce would appear to have gotten out of hand when the long arm of the law even arrested and questioned right-wing hack Katie Holmes, who, during a stand-up comedy routine called herself a “spazza” and was subsequently detained for hours by UK police for the “offence”. [Read More]

UK Reopens 1,000+ Grooming Gang Cases After Review Exposes Police Failures

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA)—somewhat comparable to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)—has announced a sweeping review of more than a thousand grooming gang cases that may have been wrongly abandoned due to “human error” by police or prosecutors. The operation, codenamed Operation Beaconport, will re-examine cases of potential group-based child sexual exploitation across England and Wales that were “incorrectly closed with no further action taken.” [Read More]