In Australia, submissions regarding the government’s proposed digital identity legislation will end on 19 January 2024. This was only ratified by a Senate vote on 30 November 2023, meaning there is a politically motivated miniscule time frame for the Australian public to voice its opposition. One can’t help but wonder if the government has deliberately chosen an expiration date when people have been distracted by Christmas or may still be enjoying a holiday. That aside, many believers continue to hold real concerns about what a digital identity framework will mean for citizens.
In a 2016 presentation, the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) defined the term “identity” in the following way: “Identity…is a collection of individual attributes that describe an entity and determine the transactions in which that entity can participate.”
A digital identity would mean storing these characteristics in a central digital system from where they could be called up at any time – instantaneously. To save us from speculating, the WEF gave a relatively harmless example: a person may only buy a bottle of wine (the transaction: purchase alcohol) from the age of 18 (the attribute: age) in a certain jurisdiction (the location: city, state, country).
You might already foresee the problem. Through the use of digital identity (and future digital currency) governing authorities are able to severely restrict purchasing power. For instance, what if they wanted to restrict wine sales to those over 40 in metro areas? Using a digital framework, they would easily be able to. But let’s take it a step further because a lot more data can be imported into a digital identity system. Online search history, social media interactions, medical data (ie. vaccination status), religious beliefs etc might all be used to create a digital identity which either empowers or overpowers you.
It is intended to create a kind of transparent human being, with every detail known so that every detail of our lives may be controlled. Ultimately, this will all be in the hands of the Antichrist and False Prophet. It is a foreshadowing of the mark of the beast.
No comments:
Post a Comment