Many countries have digital IDs already and nothing like this is happening. Digital ID has nothing to do we censorship or freezing of bank accounts. Online Safety act was introduces without digital ID. I have a digital ID but I don’t have to show it anywhere.

Maybe if the world wasn’t shifting to the fascism it would be a good thing. But in a fascist world, digital IDs will be used to persecute people.

Digital IDs are not used for surveillance. You can just as easily surveil people without them (check out Online Safety Act). Having them does not mean you have to use them all the time.

Online activity is already being tracked since the advent of Facebook and maybe earlier.

With digital IDs it will be possible to track people’s activity OFFLINE. Or are you so naive to believe that won’t happen?

Wanna buy alcohol? Let’s scan your ID, record all your personal information, record what you were buying, record the time and location! BAM! You’ve just been tracked offline.

Are you an antifascist terrorist? Wee woo wee woo! That’s the sound the fascist police will make when they come to arrest you for that antifa post you made, because they have been alerted of your location in real time.

What people criticizing digital IDs are missing is that you can just as easily track normal ID cards.

You know why that lower half is formatted like that? That’s for computers to scan.

What’s that? That’s an ID scanner! Oh the horror! We’re all being tracked offline!!!1!