“🚨🇬🇧Freedom or control: What’s behind UK unified Digital ID system”

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“Tony Blair’s ID card scheme which Britain rejected in 2006 is back — rebranded as ‘Digital ID’.

▪️Back then the policy collapsed after public backlash, but now the same idea, announced by King Charles, is returning in a far more powerful form: one system linking banking, health records, taxes and government services to a single digital account.

▪️Blair’s 6.1 billion force Digital ID in failed in 2006, as 2.96 million people petitioned against it.

▪️The initiative was brought back to life in 2025.

🤔Who’s driving the push?

▪️[Uber-Zionist & pro-genocide supporter - my edit] Larry Ellison's Oracle, world’s largest American tech giant focused on databases, AI and government data systems”

https://t.me/geopolitics_prime/69592

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #DigitalID #Labour #Starmer #Blair #BlairInstitute #Ellison #Oracle #Control #NHS #HMRC #DigitalPound #Dictatorship

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🚨🇬🇧Freedom or control: What’s behind UK unified Digital ID system Tony Blair’s ID card scheme which Britain rejected in 2006 is back — rebranded as “Digital ID”. ▪️Back then the policy collapsed after public backlash, but now the same idea, announced by King Charles, is returning in a far more powerful form: one system linking banking, health records, taxes and government services to a single digital account. ▪️Blair’s 6.1 billion force Digital ID in failed in 2006, as 2.96 million people petitioned against it. The ministers claimed the system was "optional", but once banks integrate it, employers require it, schools demand it — optional becomes mandatory. ▪️The initiative was brought back to life in 2025. 🤔Who’s driving the push? ▪️Larry Ellison's Oracle, world’s largest American tech giant focused on databases, AI and government data systems, paid $340 million to the Blair Institute to make sure private corps, not citizens, control the infrastructure. ▪️The goal is to build a system so deeply embedded that no future government can remove it. 💰Oracle’s funding is not a donation, the corp seeks buying access to the most valuable asset of the 21st century — identity. He openly pushed for centralised government databases designed to feed AI systems. ▪️Once Digital ID is embedded in the NHS, the tax system, and government services, every citizen becomes a data point. Medical history, tax records, benefits, travel, banking — all connected to a single digital profile. ▪️Oracle already holds $930 million in UK government contracts. A nationwide Digital ID system will generate billions more through licensing fees, data processing and AI infrastructure. 🤨No ID, No money ▪️The other half is the Central Bank Digital Currency — a digital pound tied directly to a citizen’s ID. Once both systems are linked, the state gains unprecedented control over money itself. ▪️Seven international CBDC projects. Every single one is a disaster for privacy, because whether the transactions are completely traceable or digital wallets tied directly to biometric IDs. ▪️And when Digital ID and programmable money merge, access to your finances can become conditional. Miss a payment, support the wrong cause, or show up at a anti-gov’t protest — and the state can cut off your money for any “offense”! 😵 Chat | GG Movies channel | Boost us!

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New Autonomous Airwaves episode out 🎙️
Britcoin Uncapped? The Digital Pound's Promise vs. Your Privacy & Freedom

Is a UK digital pound about innovation, or quiet control dressed up as convenience? This episode explores the trade offs, risks, and why privacy still matters.

Listen here: https://pod.link/1803236881

#AutonomousAirwaves #Britcoin #CBDC #DigitalPound #Privacy #Freedom #Decentralisation

@afewbugs @beecycling @PositiveMoneyUK
But public, electronic money is also quite possible!

Here's PoMo again, in 2024:
"A digital pound, also known as a UK central bank digital currency (#CBDC), is expected to be introduced by the Bank of England and Treasury in the second half of this decade. Through the ‘seigniorage’ benefits of lower borrowing costs, it can be estimated that, by 2029, a digital pound would increase government fiscal space by between around £15bn a year in lower adoption scenarios and upwards of £30bn a year in higher adoption scenarios. This would be enough to cover most, if not all, of the £28bn a year green prosperity plan previously proposed by the Labour Party."
➡️ https://positivemoney.org/uk/publications/fiscal-benefits-digital-pound/

Sounds too wild ? No, it's entirely possible, here's @BankOfEngland (not that handle, they aren't here yet):
"A digital pound would be like a digital form of cash – a banknote for the digital era. Like banknotes, it would be issued directly by the Bank of England."
"In October 2025, we published an update on the design phase of the digital pound project. We are currently developing a detailed blueprint..."
➡️ https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/the-digital-pound

#monetarySovereignty #DigitalPound

The fiscal benefits of a digital pound - Positive Money

Published April 2024 A digital pound, also known as a UK central bank digital currency (CBDC), is expected to be introduced by the Bank of England and Treasury

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"This research showed that emerging types of PETs [Privacy-Enhancing Technologies], like pseudonymization, zero-knowledge proofs, and secure multiparty computing, might feasibly be applied to digital currency systems such as the digital pound to minimize the sharing of data both with the central bank and between payment intermediaries, giving users greater control over their data and enhancing user privacy."

https://dci.mit.edu/enhancing-the-privacy-of-a-digital-pound

#research #privacy #DigitalPayments #UK #BOE #DigitalPound

Enhancing the Privacy of a Digital Pound — MIT Digital Currency Initiative

MIT Digital Currency Initiative
This week's net.wars, "Cryptocurrency winter" finds the central banks' efforts to create retail central bank digital currencies failing to find mass adoption everywhere they're tried: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/05/19/cryptocurrency-winter/ #NetWars #cryptocurrencies #CBDCs #DigitalPound
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@pikesley Hopefully the #DigitalPound will be joining it in the dustbin of history very shortly!

"An overview of what central bank digital currencies are, what they might offer, and progress on developing a digital pound." https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9191/CBP-9191.pdf

#digitalPound #CBDC #UKParliament #BankofEngland #centralbanks

Published today: the Regulatory Initiatives Grid from the UK Financial Services Regulatory Initiatives Forum that "sets out the regulatory pipeline, in order to give firms a clear view of upcoming regulatory initiatives."

Includes #cryptoassets, #stablecoins, #CBDC, #payments, and #banking

https://fca.org.uk/publication/corporate/regulatory-initiatives-grid-feb-2023.pdf

#digitalPound #CBDC #regulation #supervision #prudentialregulation
#BankofEngland #UnitedKingdom #England #FinancialConductAuthority #FCA #centralbanks

I get the whole need for the #BoE to explore so called #britcoin (goodness I hope that label doesn't catch on) but I can see them making a right mess of it

Payment merchants, get ready to pick up the pieces and lock yourselves in. I know you're going to do it

#visa #mastercard #bitcoin #stablecoin #digitalpound #wise

What is CBDC?

CBDC stands for central bank digital currency. It’s digital money a country’s central bank can issue alongside cash. If we introduced one, we’d call it the digital pound.