The UK proposes closing up to 1,000 railway ticket offices leaving passengers to buy their tickets online and then show a digital pass on either a smartphone or tablet. In other words, cash and physical tickets are being replaced with a digital pass.
At sporting events such as the Rugby World Cup, fans can only buy tickets onlineand then present them to a turnstile to gain entry to the grounds. In other words, cash and physical tickets have been replaced with a digital pass.
Finnish citizens can now verify their identity at the UK border by showing a digital passport.
We are surrendering to a cashless society that requires digital identities and passes which self-appointed global “elites” will use to control every aspect of our lives.
The public consultation on proposals to close up to 1,000 railway ticket offices across England was “rendered useless” by inaccessible documents and inadequate Equality and Impact Assessments, Transport for All campaigners told Members of Parliament (“MPs”) during a House of Commons transport select committee in July.
Ticket vending machines (“TVMs”) will make travel almost impossible for blind and visually impaired passengers, for example. Campaigns Manager Katie Pennick told MPs that the Department for Transport had still failed to publish its programme-wide assessment of the proposals, having rejected Transport for All’s Freedom of Information request earlier in the month claiming that “Ministers and officials need a safe space away from public scrutiny to formulate and develop the policy.” This assessment, Pennick argued, should have been made available to the public to ensure that disabled people would be properly informed while responding to the consultation.
It’s not only disabled people whose access to services is being limited or denied by unmanned turnstiles requiring a digital pass. Two weeks ago, before a rugby match between England and Argentina, thousands of fans were held up and unable to enter the stadium. One has to wonder whether electronic turnstiles were part of the problem as ticket holders resorted to jumping over the turnstile gates.
The following is the article ‘Finland tests digital passports for contactless cross-border travel to and from the UK’ published by NFCW on 29 August 2023.
NFCW was founded in 1988 as a resource for those “looking to build next-generation solutions that meet the needs of today’s contactless world.” We are guessing that NFCW is an acronym for Near-Field Communication World.
Near-field communication (“NFC”), is a technology that allows devices like phones and smartwatches to exchange small bits of data with other devices and read NFC-equipped cards over relatively short distances. The technology behind NFC is very similar to radio-frequency identification (RFID).
Citizens of Finland travelling on Finnair flights to and from London, Manchester and Edinburgh in the UK can now verify their identity at border control in Helsinki Airport using a digital passport stored on their Apple or Android smartphone.
To generate a digital version of their passport, citizens wishing to take part in the Digital Travel Credentials (DTC) pilot first download a FIN DTC app that has been developed by Finnish Border Guard. They then visit a police service point to complete registration.
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