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Author warns Digital ID plans will open door to “Digital Totalitarianism”

Independent journalist and author Michael Shellenberger has raised major concerns over the rapid push toward Digital ID systems across Western nations, arguing that governments are quietly building frameworks that mirror long-standing proposals from international bodies such as the UN, EU and UK.

Authorities are presenting Digital ID as a modern solution to issues like illegal immigration, identity fraud and improved healthcare access — but speaking to Laura Ingraham on Fox News, Shellenberger warns the public is not being told the full story.

According to his investigation, the real risk lies in the creation of a highly centralised identity system that could be used to monitor and restrict citizens’ daily lives.



He points to China’s model of integrated Digital ID and social credit scoring — which governs movement, banking, online access and behaviour — as a worrying template.

Shellenberger says Western governments appear to be following a familiar pattern: the systems begin as optional and incentive-driven, but gradually shift toward mandatory compliance and penalties for non-participation.

He also highlights what he calls the “biggest hidden danger”: the cybersecurity threat created by concentrating financial, medical and personal data into a single universal identity system. A single major breach, he warns, could expose people’s bank accounts, health records and personal information all at once — effectively compromising their entire digital lives. “This isn’t convenience,” he says. “It’s a digital cage — and it’s being built fast.”

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17 COMMENTS

  1. Yikes!

    A gigantic ‘No Sh*t Sherlock’ moment for Michael Shellenberger.

    30 years too late to the Orwellian dystopian technocratic hellscape party unfortunately.

  2. Its the Neo Assyrian Babylonian captivity of the White race all over again
    Macrocosm of the microcosms
    Genesis 3:15
    The future is the past totally forgotten
    All things in the future are rooted in the past
    All things in the past are rooted in the future
    Nothing new under the sun
    In 3D nothing ostensibly does change but does cycle
    Till now

        • And then
          comes in the Ai surveillance autonomous machines
          small
          like fat mosquitoes
          sly like your grandmother
          quick
          issuing stun-gun apprehending spiderwebs
          to render you
          into
          Soylent Green.
          This poetry will become reality soon until YOU (and this is not directed to you, anonymous; I just use your Segway), until YOU wake up and join action.

          • What do you imply by join action? I am sure if you offered a plan you might get support, but you better have big balls

  3. Michael Shellenberger just noticed the insidious globalist digital neo-feudal agenda.

    I fear Michael might be a little slow on the uptake.

  4. My advice, don’t vote for any party that supports Digital ID’s, such as National. I have attached a link to just one disturbing article, that shows the threat presented by digital surveillance. Digital fingerprinting was also used in Israel to draw up lists of Palestinians, the state wanted to target. We don’t need this kind of totalitarianism here in New Zealand.

    https://www.mintpressnews.com/revealed-former-israeli-spies-working-top-jobs-google-facebook-amazon/282413/

  5. https://rumble.com/v6uj0oj-the-agenda-their-vision-your-future-2025-full-documentary-4k.html
    AND-
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtTKOtJ5ABc
    HOW TO STOP THIS?
    Here’s your declaration forms to submit via court filing or having your JP or solicitor(s) submit the same for you-just scroll down to the yellow PDF block, upper left corner…
    https://thevinesisters.com/tvs-declaration
    Or, just go here…below.
    https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/a6e95263-0ae4-4322-a498-758467263f5d/downloads/fe41806c-e7b3-4b3f-a287-bee80b015fd8/TVS_Declaration_english%C2%A0(1).pdf?ver=1763181379987

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