The U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee recently voted to approve the Improving Digital Identity Act – a legislature that would establish a national digital ID system for all 50 states for every single person.
The bill, known as “S.4528 – Improving Digital Identity Act of 2022,” is now headed to the Senate floor to be voted upon, which is expected to pass when it does.
The bipartisan bill was first introduced last year by Senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona (D), and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming (R).
MeriTalk, a private-public news outlet that covers technology related news within the government, explains what this bill will create if passed:
The bill would establish the Improving Digital Identity Task Force – a public-private taskforce – to establish a government-wide effort to develop secure methods for governmental agencies to protect the privacy and security of individuals and support reliable, interoperable digital identity verification in the public and private sectors.
The legislation also would direct the Department of Homeland Security to award grants to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments to upgrade systems that provide drivers’ licenses or other types of identity credentials to support the development of highly secure, interoperable systems that enable digital identity verification.
The Government Accountability Office also would be tasked with reporting to Congress on estimated cost savings from widespread use of digital identification technologies.
Furthermore, in 2021 a companion bill (that bears the name of this current encompassing legislature) was also tacked on by Representatives Bill Foster of Illinois (D), John Katko of New York (R), Jim Langevin of Rhode Island (D), and Barry Loudermilk of Georgia (R), which was later approved by the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
This bill “would also instruct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop new standards for digital identity verification services, with an emphasis on security and privacy.”
COVID-19 changed a lot of in the way Americans live, work, and provide for our families, and we have become even more reliant on digital commerce platforms.
But with more Americans adapting to a ‘new normal’ in the way we go about purchasing life necessities, this also means more Americans’ personally identifiable information [PII] is at risk of being stolen.
Barry Loudermilk of Georgia (R) said
It’s time for the United States to catch up to the rest of the developed world on digital identity. The work and routine of daily life is increasingly done online – whether it’s banking, investing, shopping, or even communicating with doctors – and the COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated this digital evolution.
It’s become vitally important to ramp up safeguards to protect against identity theft and fraud, so consumers and businesses can have confidence in online transactions and the peace-of-mind of protecting sensitive information.
Bill Foster of Illinois (D) said
In anticipation for this bill’s passage, and other state-passed bills that may come, states are currently developing an official digital license of their own.
The WinePress has reported that states like Arizona are already doing this.
Bloomberg Law explains what this digital ID would mean for the future:
A person seeking to enter a bar, for example, could prove that they’re at least 21 years old without revealing their birth date, along with other details like their name and address, by presenting a QR code for scanning. Security checkpoints at airports, which are starting to test the use of mobile driver’s licenses in some US cities, also require only a few data points from a person’s license.
A key selling point of digital driver’s licenses is that they’re difficult, if not impossible, to steal, alter, or forge, according to industry experts.
Mobile driver’s licenses are digitally signed by the state’s issuing authority, allowing agencies or businesses that accept the IDs to electronically authenticate identity information and ensure that there has been no tampering. This process can be done offline, using a downloaded set of cryptographic keys that let a verifier confirm the validity of a digital ID with its issuer.
Adoption so far has focused on in-person use cases like at banks or airports, where a physical ID card can be replaced by a digital one. Digital identity proponents are pushing for credentials that can be used online to access health-care records and government services such as unemployment benefits.
Andrea Vittorio for Bloomberg explained
You hand over a driver’s license for a lot of non-driving-related applications.
A mobile driver’s license lets you control what information is shared and limit it to what’s required for that transaction.
Christine Nizer, who leads Maryland’s Motor Vehicle Administration, said
Introducing an new digital ID will surely be linked to the financial sphere as well, according to the magazine International Finance:
China heavily relies on national technology companies using smartphone applications that are connected to financial institution accounts that make financial transactions. On the other hand, India, the largest democracy in the world has managed to create the largest single digital biometric ID programme in the world for citizen and public welfare. Kenya is known for its mobile money model that primarily provides customised financial services through mobile money accounts.
These are all examples of how nations have managed to digitally include their citizens in the formal economy while creating a digital footprint for their citizens that were previously underserved and financially excluded. Even then, there is a large chunk of the world population that is still without bank accounts, and they are especially from third world countries. The information about an underserved individual that exists online can be used by the concerned government to leverage this digital data to create digital personas. This data can also be used to gain market insights, personalize customer engagements, and provide a fictional transaction process.
The WinePress reported last month that the World Economic Forum openly says that those who submitted themselves to the Covid lockdowns, vaccines, and many other ‘new normal’ tendencies, will also accept a carbon-based social credit score system.
Already one of the largest banks in Australia has implemented that very system.
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This has a social credit score tied down to these digital IDs written all over it.
Now all that is left is the introduction to a newly regulated digital dollar to boot; which is something that we know is around the bend. I suspect that when the FED’s digital dollar is released, they will not mandate it right away, but incentivize people to hop on the bandwagon; and then when the western economies collapse, then the digital currency can be mandated in the wake of the destruction.
US Treasury Renews Calls For A Digital Dollar
And obviously this brings us one step closer to the “final solution:”
[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Revelation 13:16-18
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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nope, I will not comply!
NOPE! Not Here!
They’re trying to enslave us to our smartphones.
Smartphones can be used both to scan/recognize the Luciferase used in Bill Gates / MIT’s Quantum Dot Tattoo (microneedle patch); & to deliver radio waves that can be used for remote control. For the latter, see The Rockefeller University’s article “Flipping a Switch Inside the Head.”
When is talk going to stop and action going to start?
The UN was created to become the One World Government. NATO is its military; WEF is business; the WHO is medical; etc. Everything the elite do is to implement the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this case, potential profits & biometric data (control) to be collected via SDG 16.9 “ID for All” is better understood via biometricupdate’s site. Another manifestation is Gates’ ID2020.
Of course, ID for All (global ID), like IBM’s punch cards made for Germany’s 1933 census, is helpful for tracking people (like Jews to send to the Nazi death camps. See Edwin Black’s “How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland Final Solutions”).
Musk, the “free speech absolutist,” wants people “verified” (to prove they’re not bots, not writing racist posts, etc.). He’s partnered with DARPA & NASA (and has Gates & Bezos as advisors to his QuantumAI investment machine); & after first wanting Twitter to “help humanity,” now says that buying it will speed up the implementation of his everything app, named “X.” It’s based on China’s WeChat, which tested Social Credit Score system in 2019; & rolled it out in 2020.
Mr. Thompson’s other article, “Ignite The Right: Candace Owens Endorses Social Credit Score App Marketed For ‘Patriots’,” suggests social media is a Trojan Horse. We’ll see what kanye does if he buys Parler. I think they’re all jockeying for position.